Hillary Clinton's Illiberal Belligerence Dear Professor Zunes: Thank you for "Hillary Clinton's Illiberal Belligerence." However, I must take serious issue with your characterization of her belligerence as "illiberal." There is absolutely NOTHING that has happened in...
The Ron Paul campaign has generated a lot of excitement, especially among young people. It has made political history by raising more money in a single day than any other presidential campaign, ever. It has inspired thousands and given hope to those who had given up...
Updated at 5:00 p.m. EST, Dec. 24, 2007Fourteen people, all belonging to the same family, were kidnapped in restive Diyala province. Another seven people were kidnapped near Kirkuk, and one person was abducted near Duluiya. Elsewhere, at least 15 Iraqis were killed...
Updated at 7: 30 p.m. EST, Dec. 23, 2007At least 26 Iraqis were killed or found dead and another 21 were wounded during the latest attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, Turkey bombed northern Iraq for a second day in a row, but no casualties were...
In case you thought that Bonkers Bolton was finally right about something – that the U.S. Intelligence Community had finally staged a "quasi-putsch," had finally stood up to the Likudniks and assorted neo-crazies hell-bent on launching a...
The conventional wisdom de jour in Washington, DC, can be summed up in a catchphrase popularized by Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign: "It's the economy, stupid!" The former Arkansas governor was challenging then-President George H.W. Bush, who had led the...
I should clarify something during this season when everyone hopes for peace and good will: I am not a pacifist. If war is forced upon us, we have no choice but to fight it. Ernest Hemingway said it well when he observed that there are several things worse than war,...
Although the image of the United States appears to have improved in Saudi Arabia over the past year, the Saudi public's view of Washington remains largely negative, according to major new poll released here this week by Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT), a Washington,...
Updated at 6:44 p.m. EST, Dec. 22, 2007At least 14 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 22 more were wounded in the latest round of violence. Also, a pair of IEDs killed one MND-North soldier and wounded 11 more in Kirkuk. Meanwhile, U.S. troops left a base in...
Updated at 5:25 p.m. EST, Dec. 21, 2007 At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 10 more were wounded during a day of extremely light violence. No Coalition deaths were reported. A suicide car bomber in Yusufiya killed four policemen and a civilian. Eight people were also...
