Republican Speaks at Crawford Texas Antiwar Protest

Organizers of the March 20 Crawford, Texas Peace Rally wanted to broaden their line up from the usual antiwar sources to include clergy, antiwar military veterans and their families, and yes, even an antiwar Republican. It was for the latter reason that I was one of...

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Phase III Resistance in Iraq

An article in the Friday, March 29 Washington Post pointed to the long-expected opening of Phase III of America’s war with Iraq. Phase I was the jousting contest, the formal "war" between America’s and Iraq’s armies that ended with the fall of Baghdad....

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My Palestinian Wife

Every now and then, the rumor arises that I have a Palestinian wife. Some of my kin were highly amused by a debate on that subject that was being conducted by letters to the editor in their local paper recently. Apparently, it does not occur to anyone simply to ask...

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Unilateralism: The Unknown Ideal

So Spain is pulling out of Iraq, and Poland may be close behind. So what? What have Spain, Poland, or any of the other coalition countries besides the United States and United Kingdom done, anyway? This may only be my inner chauvinist talking, but I doubt that...

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Is Anybody in Charge?

In today's world, where state-worship is the secular faith of our age, and the idea that "the government will take care of it" is the centerpiece and source of all political discourse, the revelations of Richard Clarke, former terrorism czar, are nothing less than...

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The Iraq War: Is the United States Better Off? Though I found Dr. Moore's argument sound and convincing in the above article, I must take exception to the following paragraph: "Then there are King Fahd and Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), Than Shwe (formerly...

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The Consequences of Bush’s War

A year has elapsed since President Bush ordered U.S. forces to invade Iraq. Since that March day, 2003, it has become clear as crystal: Operation Iraqi Freedom was an unnecessary war. Saddam had had no role in 9-11 or the anthrax attack, no plans to attack us or to...

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Chinese and US Bluffs

Taiwan had a chance to prove to the world, and most of all to China, that a free democratic election is a just and righteous method for choosing leaders. That chance was blown, and now with angry opposition protests raging across the island screaming "invalid" and...

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A Click Becomes a Political Tool

"Big events like last year's antiwar demonstrations on February 15 would exist even without the Internet, but they would be much smaller," says Lorenzo Mosca, a researcher from the University of Florence on civil society's use of new technologies. "New...

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