Let's see: a con-man makes up a few non-facts, invents some quotes, and passes off his minor lies as legitimate news over a period of some 18 months. Result: the executive editor and the managing editor of America's newspaper of record resign in disgrace. On the other...
The good news is that, according to one of President Bush's top advisors, "If many more months go by and our troops are still there, the Iraqis are still fighting each other and us, and we still haven't found any WMD, there will be hell to pay." The bad news...
You know George W. Bush is in big trouble when even George Will, who backed the Iraq war and has toed the neocon line pretty faithfully, sharply questions the rationale for war. The complete absence of any evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of...
It was a glorious victory, proclaimed by none other than our conquering commander-in-chief as he zoomed onto the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln: we had "prevailed" in the war against Iraq, and the pro-war pundits, drunk with bloodlust, were delirious with joy....
Good news – for once! Indeed, we haven't had any of that since 9/11. I'm happy – nay, ecstatic – to report that the much-ballyhooed attack on Iraq has been indefinitely "postponed." As we are informed by the Washington Post [May 24]: "The...
Okay, let's play "Name That Nation": Al Qaeda is supposedly hiding there, the country's rulers are fast developing "weapons of mass destruction," and the population, we are told, longs for "liberation." No, it's not Iraq before the recent...
2's column will return Wednesday. Here is a classic column from last year.The two premier magazines of foreign affairs recently featured articles with diametrically opposed themes on a much-discussed topic: is the US Empire on the rise, or in decline? In Foreign...
Why are the neocons writing long screeds trying to disprove their own existence? Poor Jonah Goldberg is faced with an impossible task. He wants his readers to forget the history of their own movement, ignore the enormous literature documenting the neoconservative...
When David "Axis of Evil" Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, turned his rhetorical guns on antiwar conservatives and libertarians, this writer included, he ended his peroration against "unpatriotic conservatives" with the declaration...
At first it looked like it was going to be Syria: Baghdad had no sooner fallen, you'll remember, when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began glowering in the direction of Damascus. Colin Powell's powwow with Syrian President Bashar Assad cut the War Party off at the...
