Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War

Richard Cohen of The Washington Post on …Unshakable Faith: The favorite Bush grammatical construction is the tautology: Something is bad because it's bad. A synaptic leap is made in which […]

Associated Press on Bomb kills U.S. soldier, Iraqi interpreter: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy in north Baghdad today, killing an American soldier and his Iraqi interpreter. […]

The Independent Institute has posted a transcript from a June 25, 2003 Policy Forum on Preemptive War Strategy: A New U.S. Empire? at this location. Interesting reading.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]