Liberation? Not Yet

Iraqi Self-Rule Delayed In addition to scientific studies, there is ample evidence that politicians lie, prevaricate and steal. Paul Bremer, the new civil administrator of Iraq, is no exception. Consider the following: in an about-face, America decided Iraq was not...

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Revolt Against the Neocons

When David "Axis of Evil" Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, turned his rhetorical guns on antiwar conservatives and libertarians, this writer included, he ended his peroration against "unpatriotic conservatives" with the declaration...

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The Apartheid Wall

Only alert readers may have noticed that the Israeli-biased American "Road Map to Peace", already being imposed on the Palestinians, has not even been accepted by Israel's rejectionist government. Asked about it, Secretary of State Colin Powell said that...

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The Justifications Crumble

When Jonathan Foreman of the New York Post, who earlier did a piece on how the rest of the media were downplaying expressions of affection for Americans among Iraqis (a story several pro-war readers helpfully emailed to me), that the United States seems to be blowing...

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Becoming the 51st State

It's beggars belief, but it is true. Last week, a group of influential politicians who inhabit the rarefied but influential world of Washington DC think-tanks, proposed that US government officials be given the right to sit in on the European Union's...

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Isn’t the World Better Off…?

A fter 9 months of TV-free studies at college, I spent a solid week of vacation in front of the set and its only source of "intellect": cable news. Boy, was I spoiled! My only exposure to world news in those 9 months came from Antiwar.com, Google News, NPR and my...

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Dinar Is Served

I'm shocked – shocked! – but it appears that neither Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld nor General Tommy Franks has read Ludwig von Mises, or even David Hume. Their economic ignorance has led to the only American defeat -- not on the battlefield, but on the...

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Joystick Mayhem

"You could oversee a bombing mission overseas then break for dinner with the family" – Boeing engineer Roy Smith on the new X-45 unmanned bomber Well, it's about time. I often think to myself, as my frozen dinner rotates in the microwave, "Shouldn't I be...

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Regime Change Roulette

At first it looked like it was going to be Syria: Baghdad had no sooner fallen, you'll remember, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began glowering in the direction of Damascus. Colin Powell's powwow with Syrian President Bashar Assad cut the War Party off at the...

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