The Return of Barbarism

“We came, we saw, he died,” babbled our notoriously bloodthirsty Secretary of State as news of Moammar Gadhafi’s grisly murder hit the headlines. Throwing her arms up in a gesture of mock-triumph, she averred – perhaps sarcastically –...

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Everybody’s Son

The most sensible — I almost wrote “the only sensible” — sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year-old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1,027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He...

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Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran

You might think that by now I would be so used to infuriating neocon drivel that, to preserve my own sanity, I would avoid looking at The Washington Post, or at least its editorial pages. I have tried. But it seems that after almost a half century in Washington, and...

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Supporting Torturers Against Torturers

I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces.... On Oct. 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda. During the next...

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Welcome to the New America

Government Assassinates 16-Year-Old Boy; the People Cheer “Ummmm, guess you ought to be more careful when associated with and visiting known terrorists. I love them drones!!” “Terrorists are selfish too. Your kid was the one who decided that he would start killing...

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The Sun Never Sets on the US Military

Once again, President Obama has ordered U.S. soldiers into harm's way unnecessarily. Last week, he quietly told the U.S. Congress that he had sent 100 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers into Uganda to help governments in central Africa fight a rebel army that's been...

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US May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan

Skepticism about the US allegation of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador has focused on doubts that high-level Iranian officials would have used someone like used car salesman Monssor Arbabsiar to carry out the mission. But when the scanty evidence in...

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