The United States dominates the globe, but analysts who make a living proclaiming America to be the essential nation, the unipower, the global rulemaker and policeman, are nervous. China refuses to remain supine and is increasingly investing in its military. U.S....
A few Hannitized dittobots are not worth the effort in debating the Iraq war. I've come to reply in kind to those who scream "treason" or rudely tell me that I don't "support the troops." Usually, my drippingly sarcastic reply to the irreconcilably rude goes something...
Despite President George W. Bush's victory last week in his protracted battle with Congressional Democrats for unconditional funding for the Iraq war at least through September, his administration appears to have given up hope that it can maintain his...
Updated at 12:24 a.m., EDT, June 2, 2007Residents of Baghdad’s Amiriya neighborhood spent a second day holed up indoors in fear of ongoing clashes between rival militant groups. No casualties were as yet reported there, but at least 114 Iraqis were killed in...
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is commemorating its annual "International Day of UN Peacekeepers" to mixed reviews, its successes being tainted by increasing accusations of sexual abuse and misconduct by its troops, and more recently, charges of illegal...
Even though the 1995 Dayton Accords stopped more than three years of brutal interethnic warfare, the conflict between communities in Bosnia-Herzegovina has continued ever since, through politics and media. Despite the near-dictatorial oversight of the...
Updated at 12:08 a.m. EDT, June 1, 2007The U.S. military reported four more GI deaths today. At least 124 American servicemembers died during May, making it the third deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion. Also, 82 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 88...
Euripides said that "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." First there was the madness of cornering Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora and letting him go. Then there was the launching of the meaningless Global War on Terror, which turned most of the world...
Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by earthquakes, two by fire. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza today remains. We no longer know who built those fabled...
Justin is traveling, his column will be back on Monday. It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by...
