George Lucas conceived Star Wars in part as a criticism of Nixonian America and the Vietnam War (the Endor battle scenes in Return of the Jedi are intended partly as a Vietnam sequence). Now, at the premier of Revenge of the Sith, he says "When I wrote it, Iraq (the...

A radical shift in US war planning towards preemptive surprise attacks of a purely technological nature (bombing, space weapons) is the subject of a new article by William M. Arkin in the Washington Post. It seems that Washington is moving towards conflict resolution...

Iraq may be a miserable place to be for most people over there, but at least the drug smugglers like it;High levels of insurgent violence and porous borders have drawn traffickers to Iraq, according to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The board says...

Drudge is running a story about 'controversy' supposedly stirred up by Pat Buchanan's most recent column, concerning World War 2. But reading the story is a disappointment, because it's just a list of personal smear attacks by various muckety-mucks against Buchanan....

Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded this column on the same subject. Prather notes that while "The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you." this is a fraud,...

In Arnaud de Borchgrave's spotlight piece today, he mentions the need for the United States and Russia to work together on the Nuclear question;Russia and America need each other today on several critical fronts, from transnational terrorism to the security of...

"We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side." - Daniel Ellsberg With the 30th anniversary of the end of the US attack on Vietnam, the event which is usually referred to as the "defense of South Vietnam" or the Vietnam War in mind, I was able to see the...

I had to laugh at Andrew Card's preposterous reaction to the news that North Korea has test-fired a missile which may or may not one day be armed with some sort of nuclear warhead. Card was actually heard to say "I think they're looking to kind of be bullies in the...

Remarks given at rallies in Columbus March 19 and Cleveland March 20, 2005 by Mike Ferner As we gather here this afternoon, our colleagues in Toledo are debuting “Arlington at Toledo,” a cemetery with over 1700 white, wooden tombstones to commemorate each U.S. soldier...

Greg Jaffe had a piece a few days ago in the War Street Urinal about the new planning document Donald H. Rumsfeld has released, a result of a major review conducted by the Pentagon every four years, and its implications for the future of the US military. The report,...