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“There’s stuff that I’ve only seen in museums, in books or on the Internet,” said Sgt. 1st Class Nelson Castro, the 3-16th’s master gunner. “Most of this stuff is in fairly good shape.” http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=18397

Show Me the Hate Mail

Jonah Goldberg posted an extremely suspect bit of hate mail on the Corner today. I'm not sure what this (possibly made-up) rant is supposed to demonstrate--that everyone who opposed the war is a psychotic anti-Semite?-- but I find it difficult to believe that Jonah...

Nukes + Military Aggression = Proliferation

According to Albert R. Hunt, writing in yesterday's Wall Street Journal ("It's a Real War and It's Not Going Well"), "Rather than an incentive to cooperate, the effect of the Bush pre-emptive doctrine on Iran and North Korea, the other members of the infamous axis of...

Silber Strikes Gold

Arthur Silber sees two options for Iraq policy: we can spend decades and billions in a futile attempt to turn Iraq into Switzerland (as the brilliant Jonah Goldberg once suggested), Or we can simply leave as quickly as possible -- which means that Iraq is likely to...

Attention Jim Lobe Fans

Check out this interview with Jim Lobe on the history of the neocons. If you have problems with the streaming version, you can also download the .mp3 version. Thanks to "Philip Dru," whose Website has a great selection of interviews with notable libertarians and...

What Gregg Easterbrook Should Have Written

John Laughland on violence, fictional and real, in The Spectator: During the recent Anglo-American attack on Iraq, no seriously disturbing images of corpses or wounded bodies were broadcast, just as they had not been during the Kosovo war in 1999 or the Afghan war in...

A Pulitzer for [i]Stars & Stripes[/i]?

Not that the Pulitzers mean anything, but notice all the buzz around Stars & Stripes lately? Well, there's another reference in this article on military voters squirming loose of the GOP claw. I pondered this possibility early last week (you heard it here first!), and...

Missing the Cold War

Speaking of "OK, So Vietnam Wasn't Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is"... Arnold Beichman's featured Opinon piece in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal is titled "Why I Miss the Cold War." "Am I being wholly rational when I say that I miss the Cold War? "There was a...

This May Take Awhile

As many as 40 countries are capable of making nuclear weapons, according to IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei. In related news, Iraq is still not one of them.

More Evidence of Bush’s Eroding Influence

Senate Confirms Bush Error on Indonesia Military Aid Earlier this month President Bush said that Congress had "changed their attitude" toward resuming the US program to train Indonesia's military, and was ready to "go forward with" funding the program. Last week a...