Cowardly Tribunals
The Economist on Unjust, unwise, unAmerican: YOU are taken prisoner in Afghanistan, bound and gagged, flown to the other side of the world and then imprisoned for months in solitary confinement punctuated by interrogations...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Habitual Liar
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on False in One, False in All: When I was a newspaper reporter covering the criminal courts in Pennsylvania, lawyers always told juries they were entitled...
When Is It Really Over?
Col. David H. Hackworth on Bring what on? On May 1, George W. Bush landed in a military jet on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with all the pomp and ceremony of...
One Voice, One View
John deLaubenfels of Strike The Root on Clueless Army Wives: A recent article in the Guardian tells of the frustration of military families in Hinesville, "The Fastest Growing Town in South-Eastern Georgia," adjacent to...
Tyranny of the Dupes
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Are We Feeling Duped Yet? A lot of silly things have been said about Iraq’s alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, such as that...
Another One Bites The Dust
Tyler Hicks of The New York TImes on A 'Liberated' Orphanage Searches for Its Children: Al Rahma, an orphanage in northern Baghdad, was run by the state under Saddam Hussein, but is now run...
PVT Jeeves
Tom Anderson of Slate on Jeeves Goes to War: Why is the Pentagon sending soldiers to butler school? Somewhere in Iraq, a young soldier is handing his three-starred boss a bottled water on a...
Defense of Home and Hearth
Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute on Defense of Your Home Is Not Terrorism, Not Even in Iraq Bush vows that the continuing attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq will not dissuade him from...
More on ‘Support’
Col David Hackworth on Shoestring Logistics — The New American Way: Even though Iraq presently costs you and me over three billion bucks a month and Generals are living in palaces, the kids are...
What Gives?
It appears that the Army Times pulled a June 30 editorial regarding Congress and the Administration’s lack of support to the military from its website. I’ve previously spoken to the issue of those who...