It looks as if it's going to be a real war, not a video game, a TV "reality" show or a cakewalk. The apparent setbacks to the American battle plans over the weekend might well turn out to be less strategically significant than some would make them out to be....
A No-Winner
Up until Saturday our "embedded" media was projecting images of Iraqis dancing in the desert, delirious with joy at the arrival of their "liberators," but by Sunday morning the edges were already beginning to fray around the official story of a near-seamless...
A Guest Column from National Review
[Editor’s note: Matt Barganier was too shocked and awed by events in Iraq to write this week’s column. In deference to the War Party’s superior gravitas, he decided to let some of his favorite militarists use the Collateral Damage space as a forum this...
From the Front…of an Antiwar Rally
As Antiwar.com's Student Coordinator, I have spent the last nine months helping students across the country find speakers and direct them to local activist events. When I receive emails that ask "What can I do?" I tend not to reply: "Run out in the streets and...
COMMISSAR FRUM
This day [March 19] has been too too depressing. Not only is the nation plunged into a horrific and unnecessary war – a war that will kill many thousands of innocents, bankrupt the country, and create a bloody chaos in the Middle East – but, to top it off,...
What War?
The first thing you need to know is that we are not at war. Had we been truly at war, Congress – the only body empowered under the U.S. Constitution to bring us into a war – would have declared it. But they have not. Congress long ago stopped following the...
A Beautiful Morning for a War
The story of a woman on the morning of a war/ Tell me if you could exactly what we're fighting for – The Red Hot Chili Peppers This morning I woke up real early and practiced my minimal wu shu. It promised to be a beautiful day – the urban rooster gang was...
Bluff and Bluster
The much-anticipated "shock and awe" strategy breathlessly awaited by our image-hungry media has somehow morphed into a war of bluff and bluster. Instead of launching an all-out military assault, the U.S. military strategy is, at least initially, a political...
Alley of the Damned
"Bosnia is a country of hatred and fear." - Ivo Andric, 1920 It will soon be eleven years since Bosnia was recognized as an independent state, yet it has never functioned a single day as such. Most of its Croats have long since taken Croatian citizenship,...
The Arrogance of Power
I believe in this beautiful country. I have studied its roots and gloried in the wisdom of its magnificent Constitution. I have marveled at the wisdom of its founders and framers. Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie...