The President's war speech to the United Nations, delivered just a day after the first anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, not only underscored the paucity of his case, but pointed to the great diversion represented by this new adventure:...
Deciphering the Chinese Smile
On the anniversary of 9/11, newspapers throughout China ran front page photos of the burning Towers many with an inset depicting mourning Americans. Articles focused on Americas War on Terrorism, the anguish of the victims familis and the few...
The Day Nothing Changed
"The world has changed. Nothing is the same any more." Those were the two most common sentiments last year, in the shell-shocked aftermath of Black Tuesday, as the horrors of war stopped being something that happened elsewhere. A year later, those phrases...
Questions That Won’t Be Asked About Iraq
Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that wont be asked and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this...
9/11 DISCONNECT
I had landed at JFK Airport just seven hours earlier, on 9/10, and was groggy when my father roused me at 9:50 that fateful morningbut what was happening on the television screen burnt through the veil of sleep and seared me in my soul. "Good God, look what...
Preventive or Preemptive War?
Do you believe President Bush and Prime Minister Blair that there are new reports suggesting that Saddam Hussein is getting somewhat close to being able to manufacture a nuclear weapon, or do you believe the International Atomic Energy Agency, which says it has no...
War Now!
Slowly, President Bush's war plan against Iraq is emerging from the thick fog. At first it looked like a collection of hazy slogans, but gradually it is becoming clear that it has definite if hidden aims. The plan is unconnected to the famous "war...
A Foreign Policy for Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
Thomas Jefferson spoke for the founders and all our early presidents when he stated: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none..." which is, "one of the essential principles of our government". The question is: Whatever...
Iraq War II: This Time We Mean It
Tony Blair has let it be known that he's willing to bear, quote (as they say), 'the blood sacrifice' the special relationship entails. Now we're above the sort of knee-jerk pacifist liberal jerkwaddery that cries out, 'hey, dude, it's not you man who'll do the...
WE’RE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Antiwar.com is making a difference. I first realized this when commentators outside our little circle of noninterventionist policy wonks and activists began referring to "the War Party" in heartily derisive tones. Of course, its a logical name...


