From a military or strategic standpoint, to be sure, there's not that much significance to the figure of 2,000 U.S. military personnel – Staff Sgt. George Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas, was the sad milestone, although some will dispute whether he was #...
"It's not over." Out of Fitzgerald's hour-long press conference, these three words had the most resonance. Before we get into that, however, let's look at the man who has come out from behind the screen of this very closely-held investigation. Fitzgerald's debut at...
Dresden In Dresden, I visited the daughter of my mother's old friend Guenter Reimann, author of The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, a seminal study known to many classical libertarians. Karen showed me around and told me how the German economy strangled...
Just before the January 2005 Iraqi elections, I was quoted in one media outlet: "Those who believe that the elections will result in a calming effect in Iraq are just wrong. The violence will increase and get uglier." I went on to say: "And if 150,000 U.S. troops...
Those in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s who went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War were later termed "premature antifascists." Perhaps, in the same spirit, I might be considered a premature Bush-administration implodist. On Feb. 1, 2004, reviewing the week...
With the announcement that there would be no announcement Thursday in the CIA leak case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald is giving me an ulcer – so you can imagine what he's doing to Scooter Libby. Oh, we know he and his little elves are working assiduously to make sure we...
One of the difficulties in writing regularly about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, in my eyes, that so little ever changes. The basic constants – above all, Israel's overwhelming military, economic, and political superiority, all serving its colonialist aims...
These are not the halcyon days of George W. Bush. With his approval rating below 40 percent, his reputation as a decisive leader ravaged by Katrina, his conservative base shattered by Harriet, and his closest aide facing indictment, the president is said to be...
Someone should tell Condi Rice that the game is up. With the Bush administration dissolving in illegalities committed by key officials in their attempts to protect the lies that they used to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the secretary of state is trying to ramp...
Has I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, made a deal with CIA leak investigator Patrick J. Fitzgerald – and turned on his boss in return for leniency? It sure looks like it. Or else how is it that Scooter suddenly discovered his notes of...
