Message: we care
Several different archaeological groups extracted promises from Pentagon officers that Iraq’s national museums would be protected, but…Artifacts? Who cares about stinking artifacts?
Archive of posts filed under the Iraq category.
News to peruse
Robert E. Lee once said, “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” Ezrael missed that quote in his eloquent essay about this war, but he didn’t miss much else. I’m only sorry I didn’t read it until today, four days after he posted it. Go read. …
Not-so-idle thoughts
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 …
The Graybeards speak
There were a couple of distinguished voices in today’s Op/Ed pages: from the Washington Post, Gary Hart, whose knowledge of terrorism issues is pretty impeccable (he was co-chair of the Commission on National Security/21st Century with Warren Rudman), and from the NY Times, Jimmy Carter. President Carter argues that the seemingly-inevitable military action in Iraq …
Dignity and Media? NOT!
Ever wonder why the conservatives and neo-conservatives trash the media (particularly the NYT) as liberal? It may because of the background they share. If this article is to be believed, few have ever been journalists in the usual sense; most have spent their professional lives in politics or political advocacy organizations, so their view is …