The best news relating to the Balkans is that there seems to be something of a split within the Bush administration over "peacekeeping" missions like the NATO deployment in Bosnia and other Balkan countries. The worst news is that at this point the most...
I lived through it, but just barely. I'm talking about the "Pearl Harbor" movie, of course. Undaunted by the nearly unanimous jeers of the critics – bound, really, by a sense of duty, since I have written no less than three columns about the damn thing – I...
In a perfectly calculated spin, Prime Minister Sharon unilaterally declared "cease fire" last Tuesday (22.5). He did not announce it in the press conference that day, but made it known indirectly several hours later, giving even more bubble-gum for the...
Today's column is an introduction to today's "Spotlight," John T. Flynn's classic pamphlet The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor, which you can check out here. The smoke barely had time to clear before a dark cloud of intrigue and suspicion formed around the...
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin has captured the essence of the maudlin "patriotism," the sheer ugliness of the mindless jingoism unleashed by the "Pearl Harbor" movie in her column on the subject, "Patriotism and Pearl Harbor," which starts out maudlin and...
I'm planning on going to see Pearl Harbor the day it opens, but not without some trepidation: you see, I'm going with my Significant Other, who is Japanese. Not Japanese-American, mind you, but Japanese-Japanese. So what's the problem? THE FEAR FACTOR The problem is...
I almost hope that Secretary of State Colin Powell’s opening to more involvement in the always-ephemeral Middle East "peace process" is a public relations gesture that is essentially a cynical ploy rather than a serious move. One can imagine it being...
With the release of Pearl Harbor, a cinematic reenactment of the popular myth handed down to us by Roosevelt's hagiographers, the Memorial Day weekend will culminate in an orgy of lying war propaganda. The movie, starring somebody named Ben Affleck (so I'm not into...
In denying that he is a war criminal who attacked retreating Iraqi soldiers and killed thousands in the Gulf War after the ceasefire, Clinton's drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey has been all over the media, booked from morning 'til night, running hard and fast to beat...
I always knew R. W. Bradford was a sellout, and now his recent screed, "China: The 'Crisis' and the Facts," has confirmed my long-standing suspicion. But before we get to that, some background material might be helpful, starting with the essential question: Who the...
