At times it seems as though we've gone back in a time machine to the darkest, sub-zero days of the Cold War era, when Americans were frantically digging bomb shelters in their back yards, Godless Communism was on the march, and the jackboots of the KGB were just...
As the situation on the ground in Iraq veers out of control, the rest of the Middle East is coming undone – a state of affairs directly attributable to our policy of "regime change" throughout the region. On the western front, Lebanon is teetering on the brink of...
Any doubts that the U.S. is engaged in a colonial adventure in Iraq – because we're "liberators," not imperialists – ought to be permanently dispelled now that top administration officials are holding up the "Korean model" as a framework...
[This is the text of a speech given at the Future of Freedom Foundation conference "Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties" on June 1.] To listen to the public spokesmen of the War Party, one would think that the 9/11 attacks tore a hole in the...
Justin is traveling, his column will be back on Monday. It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by...
It's the season of political makeovers, what with Hillary Clinton, former Warrior Princess, now turning herself into La Pasionaria of the antiwar movement, and Mitt Romney, her probable opponent in the race for the White House, transforming his previous Rockefeller...
You would think that a political tendency such as the neoconservatives, one that has presided over a disastrous war which is increasingly unpopular, and which has unleashed a wave of resentment and even hatred against them, would just crawl back under the rock from...
The family of Andrew Bacevich, a 27-year-old first lieutenant who was recently killed in an ambush north of Baghdad, doesn't want to see its beloved son and brother turned into an impersonal symbol of a tragic and unnecessary war: they want him to be remembered as a...
The times, they are a changin' – and the signs are all around us. The American people are sick unto death of the Iraq war, and this growing dissatisfaction with American foreign policy spans the political spectrum: it isn't just the Left that is singing "we ain't...
I’ve been waiting for this moment for quite a long time, but I have to say I don’t feel a whole lot of satisfaction about having been proved so indubitably right: "As the U.S. stumbles, or is pushed, into another unwinnable land war in Asia, the...
