David Frum took issue with this writer’s "Ledeen on the Run" and "Benito Strikes Out" in the September 3 installment of his NRO diary. Seems he objected to my quoting him as saying that Michael Ledeen received $25 million for his tireless...
Far rightwing journalist and resurgent imperialist Max Boot has come back from Iraq and pronounced the US venture there a resounding success. Of imperialism he said, "No need to run away from the label America's destiny is to police the world." This gonzo...
The much-ballyhooed "War on Terror" that followed the horrors of Black Tuesday fizzled in the blood of thousands. Afghanistan was reduced to even more rubble, yet the Taliban are back and the Bearded One is still at large. Iraqis are so happy about their...
Far rightwing journalist and resurgent imperialist Max Boot has come back from Iraq and pronounced the US venture there a resounding success. Of imperialism he said, "No need to run away from the label America's destiny is to police the world." This gonzo...
The other day, I did something I don't do much anymore: I actually bought a magazine, feeling a twinge of nostalgia as I paid the clerk. With nearly everything important online, my natural stinginess impels me to foreswear periodicals printed on dead trees, for the...
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In a tiny downstairs room in San Francisco, there is a play being performed that, in true theatrical (and San Franciscan) spirit, confronts not one but two hot-button socio-political issues facing the world community today. The somewhat ironically-named New...
President Bush looked calm, determined and resolved Sunday night as he capped off Week One of the National Football League with a reminder that U.S. troops are committed to a much more serious and deadly game halfway around the globe. Still it was not difficult to...
The Sunday morning talk shows were teaming with administration spokesmen, prepping the public for their boss's evening pitch for support on Iraq. Here's Colin Powell on "Face the Nation": "It's going to cost more, and there will be continued sacrifice on the part of...
Matt Welch is vexed. According to him, U.S. involvement in Iraq has unleashed a storm of lies. No, not about uranium from Niger, or 45 minute launch times, or vast stores of anthrax, not those little fibs. Welch is referring to "lies" that exaggerate the...
