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"What’s gonna happen with Feith?” That, in a nutshell, is the question of the month for the Washington cognoscenti trying to figure out whether a major shift in the Bush administration’s unilateralist and ultra-hawkish foreign policy is or is not underway. The reference is to Douglas Feith, the administration’s rather obscure but nonetheless strategically placed … Continue reading “All Roads Lead to Feith”

The Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941 unleashed a maelstrom of pent-up violence between its people. Four bloody years later, the Communists emerged as the new power in the Balkans, reshaping Yugoslavia to their liking. Legacies of wartime carnage and genocide were shoved into hibernation, and Tito’s regime proceeded to create its own inter-ethnic conflicts … Continue reading “An Edifice of Lies”

War and drought are the standard explanations for starving Africans. War and drought definitely take their toll. But so do tax rates. Jude Wanniski has taken a look at taxation in Ethiopia. This is what he found. A farmer who earns $68 a year after expenses from cash sales of a crop is taxed 10%. … Continue reading “Western Intervention Starves Africans and Starts Wars”

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Those cowards in the U.S. Senate wouldn’t be put on the record as having voted in favor of the $87 billion appropriation for waging war on Iraq – they preferred a voice vote. When it came time to speak out, very few were actually in the Senate chambers, and the muttered assent of these few … Continue reading “THE LAST SENATOR”

The Iraq supplemental conference report before the Senate today has been widely described as a victory for President Bush. If hardball politics and lock-step partisanship are the stuff of which victory is made, then I suppose the assessments are accurate. But if reasoned discourse, integrity, and accountability are the measures of true victory, then this … Continue reading “A High Price for a Hollow Victory”

The deaths of 16 Americans in a Chinook helicopter might have an impact on how ordinary Americans think about the ongoing conflict in Iraq, although it seems to have had little or no impact on the imperial capital just yet. Or did it? In a "profile in courage" worthy of the next ghostwritten chronicle the … Continue reading “Iraq Reassessment: Due but Not Likely”

Many Americans today may not be familiar with Will Rogers. However, Will Rogers was at one time considered by many to be the most popular man in America. He once said, "America has a great habit of always talking about protecting American interests in some foreign country." Then he said, "Protect them here at home. … Continue reading “Let Iraq Take Care of Iraq”

The major new player on the National Security Council (NSC), Robert Blackwill, attended as did the chief Asia specialist at the State Department, Assistant Secretary James Kelly. But when it came time at the Chinese embassy’s dinner last week to lift glasses in honor of the visiting guest, Beijing’s defense minister, Gen. Cao Gangchuan, his … Continue reading “Bush Team Split on China, but Realists Hold the Reins”

There was hardly anything left of the helicopter shot down by Iraqi insurgents on Sunday, in which 15 were killed and 21 seriously wounded: the thing seems to have disintegrated even quicker than the administration’s case for starting this war in the first place. Piling pathos atop tragedy, the occupants were on their way back … Continue reading “THE DEADLIEST DAY”