In Cairo in 1943, when the tide had turned in the war on Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, who had embraced Joseph Stalin as an ally and acceded to his every demand, had a premonition. Conversing with Harold Macmillan, Churchill blurted: "Cromwell was a great man, wasn’t he?" "Yes, sir, a very great man," Macmillan replied. …
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As the United States marks the change in mission for Iraq, one American soldier was killed in sniper fire in Tikrit. At least four Iraqis were killed and five more were wounded in unusually light violence that could be the result of a media blackout.
Kelley Vlahos on the transformation that never happened
The calls currently heard for an independent commission to investigate America’s use of torture in George Bush’s war on terror usually argue that a congressional investigation, or a straightforward criminal investigation under the authority of the Department of Justice, would become so politicized, or be so widely subjected to partisan attack, as to be hopelessly …
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They may be worse than Abu Ghraib, says William Fisher
David R. Henderson on who’s against torture trials, and why
They’re getting away with war crimes, says Justin Raimondo
Ray McGovern says Bush may not be traveling
