As a supplement to Bill Kauffman's excellent "An Empire of Widows and Orphans," the posting of which at Hit & Run sparked a conflagration of stunning comparisons between moms and dads going to war in Iraq and moms and dads commuting to the office, I offer this article...
OK, So Vietnam Wasn’t Do-or-Die, but We Promise This War Is
Linda Chavez on Townhall.com today: Iraq is not Vietnam, no matter how much Howard Dean, John Kerry, Al Sharpton, and the other Democratic presidential wannabes would like to pretend it is. As despicable as Ho Chi Minh was, he did not pose a direct threat to the...
We’ll Show You Freedom
According to the FBI, 613,986 Americans were arrested in 2002 for mere possession of marijuana. Nathaniel Heatwole faces up to 10 years in prison for demonstrating how porous airport security remains. The National Park Service has blockaded an Alaska family in an...
Positive Externalities of Terror
Leave it to our favorite Canuck to look on the bright side of car bombings and missile attacks: See, all the terrorism in Iraq is good, cos it'll teach the Arabs to hate terrorism.
What Are We Fighting For?
Just heard a Gen. McInerney on Fox News say that the U.S. has accomplished its primary goal in Iraq, that of ensuring the Iraqi citizens' Four Freedoms. He couldn't quite remember what those are, however, so he came up with "freedom of government, freedom of the...
Hey, Pat: Tony Blankley Called, and He Wants His Tongue Back
In McLaughlin Group alumni news, Pat Buchanan sticks up for Gen. Boykin on rather dubious "takes fire to fight fire" grounds. Eerily similar to last Wednesday's townhall.com essay by Tony Blankley, right down to the word "splendid." Some sort of Halloween prank brewing?
How we can win
Today's article by Karen Kwiatkowski at LewRockwell.com is an interesting take on the way to defeat the neocons - and generally, anyone who relies on the argument of force, rather than the force of argument. Now, I'm a fan of cultural history, which is relevant...
Galloway Villain of the Week?
Yes, according to The Scotsman, but not for opposing the war on Iraq or giving Labour headaches. Then why? For lending himself so freely to the warmongers' cast of straw men: There's the TV footage of him praising Saddam Hussein for his indefatigability, which the...
U.S. Soldiers Kill, Rob a U.S. Operative in Iraq
Ameer Mahmoud Farhan, a documented "co-operator with U.S. forces," was shot six times in a raid on his home Oct. 18. From the David Frum-endorsed Iraq Today: Rasheed Lateef, a neighbor, says he saw American Humvees and three armed vehicles surround Farhan's house as...
Oh, How the Lucid Have Lost It
After reading this bizarre celebration of the Grenada invasion on NRO this morning, I first checked to make sure that the author is the same Lawrence W. Reed whose essays I've often enjoyed over the years. Upon the shocking discovery that the two are one, I looked...
