TEAM KILLERS

The Times [of London] headline said it all: "Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel." What more do we need to know about our "special relationship" with Israel? Israel demands, we obey. Yes, there is something very "special"...

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Turkey’s Election: Complications and Blowback?

The first thing Ivan Eland, the Cato Institute's Director of defense Policy Studies, said to me about the election in Turkey was that the victory of a putatively moderate Islamicist party is at least partly attributable the increasingly aggressive tone of U.S. foreign...

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A North Korea-Pakistan Connection?

A little over two weeks after North Korea shocked the world by admitting that it has a clandestine nuclear weapons acquisition programme, some more dismaying facts have come to light. The most stunning of these may be the world's first instance of the actual transfer,...

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ATTACK OF THE OXYMORONS

When I was a little boy, no more than ten years old, I steadfastly refused to go to sleep at night without first putting the theme from the movie Exodus, by Ernest Gold, on the old record player. The soaring chords, the majestic crescendos, the uplifting arpeggios...

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ATTACK OF THE OXYMORONS

When I was a little boy, no more than ten years old, I steadfastly refused to go to sleep at night without first putting the theme from the movie Exodus, by Ernest Gold, on the old record player. The soaring chords, the majestic crescendos, the uplifting arpeggios...

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The Once Controversial Question of War Finance

With regard to the war or "war," the hot-and-cold rhetoric of the Bush II administration, lo! these many months, has been wonderful to behold: first they say that "we" must launch an aggressive war against Iraq now, or "we" are doomed. Tomorrow will be too late! Then...

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NEOCONS OF THE LEFT

Certain people are touchstones – your reaction to them is a defining moment, a means of identifying who you are and what you believe. My friend Pat Buchanan is one of those polarizing types (we have that in common), and the reaction to his new magazine, The...

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NEOCONS OF THE LEFT

Certain people are touchstones – your reaction to them is a defining moment, a means of identifying who you are and what you believe. My friend Pat Buchanan is one of those polarizing types (we have that in common), and the reaction to his new magazine, The...

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Empire’s Playground

The Serbs are arming Saddam Hussein's drive for world domination. Huh? If it sounds like a plot of a pathetic spy caper, that's because it does. But even Hollywood flacks, who habitually insult the intelligence of American moviegoers, would never dare stoop this low....

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