From My Lai to Lockerbie
On this one-way planet of ours, it's hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let's try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of "extraordinary rendition" aimed at those who were...
Beyond the Hype:
Cronkite and the Vietnam War
A Lesson From Vietnam for Obama’s War in Afghanistan
A Secret History of Dissent in the All-Volunteer Force
Shorter title: Dissent in the Volunteer Military
Resistance didn’t end with Vietnam, says Dahr Jamail
read moreThe March of Folly, Continued
To understand what's up with President Obama as he escalates the war in Afghanistan, there may be no better place to look than a book published 25 years ago. The March of Folly, by historian Barbara Tuchman, is a chilling assessment of how very smart people in power...
From Phnom Penh to Islamabad
Last September, during the American presidential campaign, I wrote a column declaring that the United States had again invaded Cambodia, only this time "Cambodia" was Pakistan. President George W. Bush had ordered U.S. ground attacks on the Taliban inside...
