Yeah, that Boris Johnson of Lord Black's stable purees the Hutton report: Let us remember how this affair began. On Tuesday September 24, 2002, Tony Blair stood in the House and waved a document of which he had high hopes. "The threat of Saddam and weapons of mass...
The Stated Reason, the Moral Reason, the Real Reason, and the Right Reason
Jacob Sullum on the White House's "noble" facades: Last June New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman counted four reasons for the war: the stated reason (Saddam had WMDs and might give them to terrorists for an attack on the U.S.); the moral reason (saving Iraqis and...
Democratization Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be?
Andrew Higgins of The War Street Journal seems to think he's stumbled across an original insight. In today's opening installment of a series called "Power & Peril: America's Supremacy and Its Limits,” Higgins profiles Morocco (sorry, not available for free). The...
Mars Tax
The "Defense" Dept. actually endangers the United States -- for example, its empire of bases brought a foreign power struggle to New York and DC a couple of years ago. (So now we have a Homeland Defense department. What were the other guys supposed to be defending?)...
The Decline of American Civilization, Symptom #4,329,286
The inability to make distinctions, or the belief that one's audience is so unable. R. Emmett Tyrrell begins his defense of Oxyconservative Rush Limbaugh as follows: Really, it is not very amazing that a government vendetta has been launched against Rush Limbaugh, the...
News: Nukes are Back!
War planners not only are rethinking the unthinkable -- how and when to use nuclear weapons -- they're discussing it. Out loud. Over drinks and cheese balls... William M. Adler begins his frightening commentary with the opening night reception of Strategic Space 2003,...
The Costs of Tough Talk
Does America really need "warrior" presidents, and what does that say about our country and its citizens. Why is a military background so important in candidates for the presidency, and would we be better off as a nation without that qualification? In this commentary,...
Newfoundland Town Mourns Hero
Cpl Jamie Brendan Murphy, 26, died in Afghanistan just a week before he was scheduled to return home. Military personnel knocked on the Murphy family's door at 5 a.m. to tell them their son had been killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Hours later, members of...
Iraq, Bechtel & water
Take a two day trip with Dahr Jamail, a freelance journalist from Alaska, as he collects data on the present state of the water infrastructure in Iraq. Some excerpts: Hilla, right near Babylon, has a water treatment plant and distribution center that is managed by...
In Case You Missed Them
....here are some great stories from links stuck near the bottom of the front page of Antiwar.com: Anti-US Tunes Big Hits in Iraq: The story is a bit frightening. Some of the lyrics call for continued resistance: "The men of Fallujah are men of hard tasks," Mr....
