One of Bush’s less well-publicized roles is to pay condolence calls on families of soldiers who have been killed in the war. To date, he has visited: …more than 1,500 relatives of the 4,255 American troops who have lost their … Continue reading →
Michael Hirsh, who thinks Giuliani is suspect for cozying up too much to those nasty, unpopular neocons, offers an interesting quote in his recent Newsweek piece [emphasis mine]: [Giuliani]’s positioning himself as the neo-neocon,” jokes Richard Holbrooke, a top foreign-policy … Continue reading →
My Lai was the template. A bona fide atrocity (see this for the complete My Lai story), it not only made the name of journalist Seymour Hersh and won him his coveted Pulitzer, but it profoundly shocked the American public … Continue reading →
Patrick Desbois is a French priest with a special calling: he has dedicated himself to documenting the mass murders of Ukrainian Jews by the Nazis during World War II, committed in the days before the efficiency of gas chamber and … Continue reading →
I saw her walking ahead of me on a sidewalk in New York, and I knew immediately. She had the long hair, slicked back into a slightly damp ponytail. The large soft bag, slung over the shoulder. The small stature … Continue reading →
When I decided to call myself neo-neocon, I was only vaguely aware of how much hatred the term engenders. But many trolls and hate mail letters later, I’m far better informed on that score. I’ve done my bit to explain … Continue reading →
Israeli Government Press Office director Daniel Seaman has issued a statement declaring the al Durah incident to have been staged, the first such official Israeli government pronouncement. In the al Durah incident and its aftermath, so far only Charles Enderlin … Continue reading →
The Syrians are not happy. The details are all very hush-hush, but rumor has it in the intelligence community that earlier this month something what very wrong with the shiny new missile defense system they had recently ordered from Russia. … Continue reading →
Remember Chechnya? A country torn by a separatist war, terrorism, a Russian crackdown? A truly hopeless cause? Well, guess what? When you weren’t looking, peace—albeit of a very troubled sort—came to that very troubled land. Make no mistake about it; … Continue reading →
Congress’s approval rating with the American public is currently at a cool 24%. But that’s probably high compared to the contempt with which the Iraqi government and the US Embassy in Iraq seem to hold them. Congress’ latest foray into … Continue reading →
The front page of today’s NY Times features an article entitled “Big Coffers and a Rising Voice Lift a New Conservative Group.” It’s about the rise of Freedom Watch, formed to combat the anti-surge movement and the propaganda clout of … Continue reading →
Here’s a great summary of a recent symposium on Vietnam history. It was written by Cinnamon Stillwell, another “changer”—and, in the interests of full disclosure, a friend of mine. Stillwell writes: The significance of the Vietnam War, both from a … Continue reading →