Who was responsible for the Najaf bombing, in which 125 people were killed – including the leader of the pro-Iranian Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)? As of this writing, there are at least six versions of the truth to choose from: one...
The recent bombing of the UN headquarters in Iraq has refocused the world's attention on the dangerous situation in that nation. The Bush administration is now softening its position against UN involvement, and is considering the use of UN military forces to serve as...
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Though the presidential race has yet to even pseudo-simmer, the way it kind-of will once the so-called debates begin, my colleagues at Antiwar.com are already seething. They despise Howard Dean, and if you think peaceniks lack bile, try these quotations on for size:...
This week the North Koreans and the "coalition" have agreed to talk more and to talk soon. The negotiations had a high note when the DPRK and US reps chewed the fat for a bit in the corner while (assumingly) the other five other delegations pretended not to...
Right, here's the problem: you need to go to war, but you'd find it ticklish – and frankly, boring – to go into your real reasons for doing so, so what are you going to do? If, last September, you were Tony Blair, you'd decide that the best way forward was...
"The struggle against tyranny is our national mission, and it requires revolutionary leaders who fearlessly and tenaciously fight freedom's enemies wherever and whenever they challenge us and our ideals. It would be one of history's most bitter ironies if we were...
The climax of a Saudi-bashing orgy in the media comes with Michael Isikoff taking out after Neil Bush in the latest Newsweek. "What," Isikoff demands to know, "was Neil Bush doing in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, last week?" After weeks, or is it months, of...
Sarajevo and Bosnia are "rising from the ashes," proclaims a recent puff piece by AFP. After a horrible war that drove millions out of their homes and cost hundreds of thousands their lives, the yarn goes, Bosnia is finally bouncing back. Well, it isn't....
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa! Or, as the post-Vatican II generation would put it: Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault! I confess: I wanted to believe. I wanted to hope. I wanted to have faith in Howard Dean as the anti-war...
