- Fewer than 15% of Iraqis view US forces as liberators. - Bush: Iraq Part of 'Global Democratic Revolution' - A Canadian who the CIA sent to Syria says he was tortured.

Jack “Islamic Revival” Wheeler’s list of those belonging to “The Anti-American Right” includes Antiwar.com advisor Jon Utley, who he claims “…has simply gone around the bend in his hatred for everything America does in terms of foreign policy and everything the Bush...

The state of the federal government's finances shifted from large deficit to large surplus over the course of the 1990s, in an extraordinary turnaround that would not have been possible without the defense cuts. … One important consequence of this substantial decline...

"Bush sees hope in Philippines' past -- He compares it to vision of Iraq's future" but "The Philippines 'Liberator' Was Really a Colonizer." The Prez said the USA "liberated the Philippines from colonial rule.... America is proud of its part in the great story of the...

I found this essay: "Public Choice: Politics Without Romance," by James M. Buchanan, on the excellent (though pro-imperialism-tending) aldaily.com website. "Armed with nothing more than the rudimentary insights from public choice, persons could understand why, once...

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...

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...

Charlie Wilson's War, a recently published book by George Crile, tells the story of "the largest covert operation in history," the US government's multi-billion (yes, billion with a 'b') dollar secret program to aid the Afghan mujahideen in the '80s. There is some...

Every once in a while someone will point out some theme that I disagree with in an article posted on AWC & ask me why, if I disagree, I bother doing the work of editing the site's letters section, etc. But, in fact, it's not possible (never mind necessary or...

Sure, terrorists can cause trouble, Mideast dictators could threaten their neighbors with nukes, if they had 'em. Matt Bivens, writing in the Moscow Times reminds us, though, about the threat that could destroy civilization: "Look, if we're such great friends, why do...