A cornered rat will fight to the death, squealing and clawing and baring its yellowed fangs – just like Max Boot in today's (Thursday's) Los Angeles Times, who lashes out at war opponents with rat-like ferocity. He doesn't say they're wrong, he doesn't dispute...
The U.S.-backed government in Kabul is facing large-scale desertions by western-trained local security forces as it tries to establish a safe environment in the run-up to scheduled June elections. The success of the upcoming vote has been predicated primarily on the...
As I was finishing a piece for the Orange County Register on Iraq a year after hostilities began (if you're interested it should be available on the Register web site) on Sunday morning, or maybe even on Saturday if they post earlier) I got to thinking about some of...
From its very beginning, the Yugoslav crisis has vexed both the people of the western Balkans and the world powers intervening in the region. Almost 14 years of efforts by all to reach some sort of solution, all the self-congratulatory and optimistic rhetoric aside,...
Khalid al-Zabin, a 59-year-old Palestinian journalist was ambushed outside his office in Gaza, on Tuesday, March 2. His body was riddled with bullets. All that is known about his executioners is that they wore masks. No faction has claimed responsibility for his...
Was Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet really the last person in Washington to find out that both the president and vice president were being fed phony or "sexed up" intelligence about prewar Iraq by a Pentagon office staffed by ideologically...
With threats of a Venezuelan oil blockade helping to push petroleum prices higher, neo-conservative politicians and analysts continue to insist the biggest threat to U.S. energy supplies is Washington's reliance on Middle East oil. President Hugo Chavez on Sunday...
I’m paying the price for being prolific with a major case of writer’s cramp – which, in the computer age, takes on a whole new and (quite painful) meaning. The other night I felt a twinge in my right forearm, and, by morning, it had turned into a...
Getting out of the political quicksand of Iraq, or at least burying the bloody occupation as an embarrassing daily news item, is mission number one for the Bush campaign. Extricating U.S. troops and political capital from the mess the Bush administration created in...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads India's ruling coalition, has launched a new stratagem in its high-pitched election campaign to rake up its trademark issue of religious and ethnic identities. Starting Mar. 10, Lal Krishna Advani, the part's best-known...
