Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Sheldon Richman of the Future of Freedom Foundation on Backpedaling on Iraqi Weapons: The campaign of deception continues, but the handwriting is on the wall. President Bush himself now says that so-called weapons of...
The Sydney Morning Herald on Vilified weapons inspectors may have got it right: President George Bush's National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, is now acknowledging that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program is less clear-cut,...
Jason Halperin of Alternet on Patriot Raid: Two weeks ago I experienced a very small taste of what hundreds of South Asian immigrants and U.S. citizens of South Asian descent have gone through since...
Butler Shaffer on Where Is Smedley When We Need Him? Smedley Butler is a name with which you may not be familiar, even though he twice won the Congressional Medal of Honor. If he...
Over the weekend, I was one of the grateful recipients of a thank you letter sent to members of Veterans for Common Sense by sociologist James Roger Brown: I am sorry if anyone construes...
Scott McPherson of the Future of Freedom Foundation on A Stupid War: President Bush and his allies claimed emphatically during the months leading up to the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein was an...
Rex Nutting of CBS.MarketWatch.com on US Companies Quietly Caught Trading with the Enemy: In the past two weeks, the government has revealed that 57 companies and organizations have been fined for doing business with...
Journalist Michel Guerrin of Le Monde, interviewed Laurent Van der Stockt, a veteran photojournalist, with experience covering combat in "the first Gulf War, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Africa and the Occupied Territories." Fairly disturbing is...
R. Lee Wrights, editor of Liberty for All on The Peace War: It's All About Marketing: Waging war in the name of peace sounds so noble; so honorable; so irresistibly righteous that it is...
Rob of Strike The Root has Some Thoughts About the War: When I look at the faces of the men who were killed in this war, I don’t see people who “had other priorities”...