Oh my. If you’re not a fan of President Bush, this will amuse you; if you are a fan, don’t click it unless you have an ability to laugh ruefully. It’s an animated primer on how to refer to the Iraqi people. (Link courtesy of Scott). The Foreign Service officer resignation count is now up …
If you’re still dissenting, you’re in good company; Abe Lincoln was denouncing the Mexican War as it took place. Other than that, the article is a chronicle of the “tyranny of the majority.” Of course, if you dissent, you may be subject to more abusive wiretapping. The Supreme Court decided today, by the way, that …
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The editor of the Lebanon (Beirut) Daily Star seems to believe the same things that Tom Friedman does: that Arab populations must recognize their governments’ failings and start doing something about them. The Arab people, especially individuals and institutions of civil society, must seek a new path out of this third collective calamity since 1915. …
I swear when I wrote the previous post I had not seen this transcript, but
This is the wrong war against the wrong enemy, but it’s started. I can only hope it ends well, with minimal casualties to US military men and women and to the Iraqi population, both military and civilian, and that there will be no retaliatory terrorist attacks on the United States and its people. Defenses against …
Kristol and Lawrence Kaplan have just written a book, quoted in this article. Here’s an excerpt: The mission begins in Baghdad, but it does not end there. We stand at the cusp of a new historical era. This is a decisive moment. It is so clearly about more than Iraq. It is about more even …
As stated below, some of the President’s justification for war remains dubious, at best. Cheney contradicted himself on Meet the Press Sunday, for example; the vice president argued that “we believe [Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” But Cheney contradicted that assertion moments later, saying it was “only a matter of time before he …
Here’s the text of President Bush’s speech. Meanwhile: A CIA spokesman refused to discuss the matter. But some officials charge the administration is not interested in helping the inspectors discover weapons because a discovery could bolster supporters in the U.N. Security Council of continued inspections and undermine the administration’s case for war. So the pretext …
This may be the shortest “Big Picture” analysis I’ve ever read: the geopolitical impact of Bush’s war. And how’s this from Business Week, of all places? “The Administration risks turning what was once trumpeted as the American Century into the Anti-American Century.” When the supposed beneficiaries of the “first MBA Presidency” are saying things like …