It's September 23, and I type this during CNBC's pregame show for Bush's speech to the UN requesting international cooperation in Iraq. Joe Kernan, resident analyst, recommends that we buy, not hold, such concerns as Lockheed Martin and GlaxoSmithKline; encouraging,...
That high-pitched whine you're hearing is the sound of politicians and their media amen corner complaining about the "negative" coverage coming out of Iraq. To hear them tell it, everything is just hunky-dory over there – it's the "biased" reporters, and not the...
Nearly three years after he left office, Bill Clinton was Emperor again – at least in the minds of worshipful Balkans peons, who cheered him on as he strutted down his namesake boulevard in Pristina and pontificated about good and evil in Srebrenica. Clinton...
I wrote this review of Jim Bovard's important new book, Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, for The American Conservative, and they have (quite unexpectedly!) put it online – and thus given me a day off. Actually,...
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Conservatives have never believed in massive foreign aid. Our occupation of Iraq has become the largest foreign aid program in the history of the world. We are building or rebuilding thousands of Iraqi schools, giving free health care to Iraqi citizens, and even...
The most plausible reason I could come up with for the curious dance of denial by top administration officials regarding a direct connection between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 terrorist attacks is that it was a short-term political effort to defuse Vice President...
A desperate Saddam-on-the-run is reportedly in secret negotiations with the Americans – he's having second thoughts about his formerly expressed belief that "that no honorable hand has stretched out to greet" the "miscreant, murderous and cowardly occupier," as...
The class action suit names 11 companies and 33 banks alleged to have helped Iraq with its chemical weapons program in the 1980's, despite knowledge Saddam Hussein was actively using WMD against both Iranians and his own people. At the time, Reagan's Middle East envoy...
The neo-conservative media machine has been hard at work lately drumming up support for the $87 billion appropriation to extend our precarious occupation of Iraq. Opposition to this funding, according to the Secretary of Defense, encourages our enemies and hinders the...
