The word this week is that the Bush administration is engaged in a large-scale review of current policies that could lead to a massive military campaign against Iraq. The administration plans to have the review completed in time for Vice President Dick Cheney to...
The wave of cyber-attacks on Yahoo! and a host of other major US websites was in its second day when Janet Reno came riding in on her white horse, promising us "protection" and vowing to get to the bottom of a disruption that horrified investors and roiled the...
The utter cluelessness of what passes for ostensibly "conservative" leaders these days was brought home to me when I read the following item by National Review editor, Rich Lowry: "DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?: [Rich Lowry] "I love James Surowiecki of The New Yorker. He's a...
I should start with an apology, as this piece is wildly long, repetitive in purpose (check out Emmanuel Goldstein's much more concise alternative), and dubious in form as an exercise in English prose. However, my moral qualms aren't sufficient to spare you, for what...
The last couple of weeks have witnessed a real awakening of the Israeli peace camp. This heterogeneous camp was beaten ideologically by the purported "generous offer" made by former PM Barak, whose belligerent legacy, as we argued earlier, consisted (of hundreds of...
While the attorney general is taking off after the Tali-boy, what about the truly criminal negligence of US law enforcement agencies, who clearly experienced some kind of massive intelligence meltdown? As Howard Kurtz points out in the Washington Post today...
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that interim Afghan prime minister Hamid Karzai was the darling of Washington? There he was during President Bush's State of the Union address, making a fashion statement that was lovingly analyzed by various fawning commentators –...
"Everything has changed" – it's the bromide of the season, and it's horribly true. Things have gone from bad to worse to downright intolerable in the first weeks and months of World War III. What started out as a finely-tuned, focused hunt for the Evil...
The U.S. began bombing Afghanistan on October 7, 2001. The strikes were aimed at locations where suspected al Qaeda terrorists were. The Bush administration, in an attempt to convince everyone that the U.S. was not at war with the Afghan civilian population, dropped...
Let me tell you a story. Or rather, why not let Prof. James D. Miller, writing for National Review Online, tell you one, since he does it so much better than I could: "America should not even pretend to care about the rights of dictators. In the 21st century the...
