When Puppies Die

Just in case there were a few of you left who aren't biting the "al-Qaeda is the most evil group of people to exist in the history of the world" bit, along comes the "they kill puppies!" tapes. Let's set aside for a moment the fact that, wait – do they even have...

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THE MIDDLE EAST: WAR WITHOUT END

Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from two years ago. As the small boat approached the USS Cole, the two men on board stood at attention, arrow-straight, as if to acknowledge the solemnity and gravity of that moment – and in...

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Choosing Up Sides

We're still not seeing anything close to a full debate, let alone any signal that anybody in a position to make it stick will demand a formal congressional declaration of war before the United States attacks Iraq. But a few skeptics and even opponents of a unilateral...

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The Elusive Dr. Karadzic

For the past seven years NATO troops tossed out a net to capture the elusive former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic based on either tips from informers [they say] or based on information obtained by threats to Serb government officials and to villagers. The...

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THE SCOWCROFT DOCTRINE

There is no doubt more than a grain of truth in Maureen Dowd’s thesis that the current foreign policy row over Iraq is essentially a family feud between George W. Bush and his father, and that the solution may have to be "family therapy." But surely this is a...

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The Powell Doctrine: Baghdad/Jenin/My Lai

With the US poised to attack Iraq, it's helpful to recall what pushed us over the brink last time ... the invisible steps and the unspoken consequences. In the fall of 1990, when the US Congress was debating going to war, Amnesty International (AI) released an...

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Sleepwalking & Silent

As Americans, we need to ask ourselves: Do we really need another war memorial to our newest military dead? We may come to that in the often-threatened war against Iraq, which our Washington-based War Party confidently predicts will be short and sweet. Are you ready...

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BLOWBACK: READ THIS BOOK!

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the September 2000 issue of Chronicles, and is reprinted with permission.] In his classic study of noninterventionist or "isolationist" thought, Not to the Swift, historian Justus Doenecke takes note of a phenomenon that...

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Nothing New In Kosovo

Over the past couple of days, two prominent leaders of the "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA) have been arrested by the NATO forces occupying Kosovo. Rrustem Mustafa, better known as Commander Remi, is accused of torturing and murdering several people. Ramush...

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The UN from Qana to Jenin

Last week, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan released a report on Israel's attack on Jenin in April. A reminder of the highlights: After two weeks of heavy fighting in Jenin's refugee camp, journalists and human rights organisations (including Human Rights Watch and...

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