Maybe this post by George Hawley, "Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem," wasn't directed at Antiwar.com, but I'll address some excerpts from it anyway. In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old...
Bock on Sabbatical
Antiwar.com columnist Alan Bock will be taking a break from his weekly column while he finishes writing a book. Be sure to check out today's installment, "Independence, Empire Don’t Mesh."
The Fair-Minded Fascist
As several commenters downblog have so astutely noted, my deviationism on the crucial issue of our times – WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN HONDURAS? – has revealed me as a neocon, a fascist, and a militarist. Probably a misogynist and a theocrat, too. But just to...
Flashback: Honduras, May 2007
This is from the extreme right-wing BBC, so take it with a grain of salt: Honduras TV gets government order Honduran President Manuel Zelaya has ordered all the country's TV and radio stations to carry government propaganda for two hours a day. He says that the...
You and Whose Army?
I'm no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I'll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement: Zelaya's fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to...
Dept. of Corrections
A piece we ran in Viewpoints yesterday, "Iran’s Election Drama More Elaborate Than You Think," indicated that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a former member of the Revolutionary Guards. This was incorrect (see this for details). We regret the error. On a...
American Narcissism Quote of the Week
"Who is at the helm? The way Iran is acting up, and what about weather catastrophes? Hopefully no decision has to be made." - South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-Lexington), Tuesday, on then-missing Gov. Mark Sanford
Because They Were Just Tourists, You See
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
The Suffrage Green Preservation Society
Like Justin, I'm pulling for Iran's Greenies. No, Mousavi's worldview and goals aren't radically different from Ahmadinejad's; if they were, his candidacy wouldn't have been approved by the clerics. Nor are the people out in Tehran's streets good little junior...
There Are Some Lines You Just Don’t Cross
Remember Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party who made a big splash four years ago when he began raving about the wonders of the Bush Doctrine? Probably not, to the relief of many a neocon. He was an embarrassing ally for the warbots...
