Can one make the case that President George W. Bush “lied” or “misled” or intentionally “mischaracterized” the intelligence on Iraq and WMD in order to lead us to war? Sure, if one possesses a visceral anti-Bush mindset coupled with...
WORLD
The essence of capitalism’s foreign policy is free trade–i.e., the abolition of trade barriers, of protective tariffs, of special privileges–the opening of the world’s trade routes to free international exchange and competition among the private citizens of all countries dealing directly with one another. – AYN RAND
Taliban Lite: The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
The New York Times reported this week: Afghan Council Gives Approval to Constitution: In a carefully balanced wording, the country will be renamed the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, combining democracy and religion. There is to be a system of civil law, but no law...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan
In a much-noted speech late last month, Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ostensibly made a dramatic reversal in course. But I am wondering whether to take his shift at face value. Mr. Sharon announced that the “road map,” a U.S. plan that...
The Liberty League: An Alternative to the United Nations
It is clear for a variety of reasons that the United Nations is not only ineffectual, i.e. it can’t enforce its own resolutions, but is operating against the interests of the United States and free people everywhere. One reason for this is simply that there are...
An Open Letter to the People of Iraq
On December 15, 1791, 212 years ago, the American Bill of Rights was ratified. Thus ended a long and difficult process by which the American people first liberated themselves from tyranny and then established the first government in history founded on individual...
America’s Failing War Effort (Part 9 of 12): Israel and the Palestinians
In the preceding sections, we have evaluated the Bush administration’s approach toward America’s enemies, and the supporters of its enemies. In these categories, we have found that while the United States has taken some extremely limited steps to defend...
The Case for ‘Iraqification’
Stay the course — but change the course. That was the meaning of the sudden, sharp, and understated change in Washington’s Iraq policy earlier this month. After the American civilian administrator of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III, made a hurried visit to the...
Our Mission in Iraq
Can we finish our mission in Iraq? Or do we need to withdraw? It all depends on what the meaning of the word “mission” is. If our mission was to remove Saddam Hussein from power, then we’re done. If our mission was to remove Saddam Hussein and...
America’s Failing War Effort (Part 3 of 12): Afghanistan
While the objectives of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan differed significantly, their shortcomings had much in common. Whereas the war with Iraq was justified by reference to evidence of a somewhat indeterminate WMD threat, the case for war in Afghanistan was based...
America’s Failing War Effort (Part 2 of 12): Iraq
Despite the rapidity and efficiency of the American war in Iraq–and the glowing moments accompanying the liberation of Baghdad–the Bush administration has confronted a series of embarrassments since major combat operations were declared over on May 1st....
America’s European “Allies”: Liking Us When We’re Dead
In the days immediately following September 11, 2001 the outpouring of support from the governments and people of Europe was overwhelming. Americans living in or visiting Europe at the time remember the various Europeans hugging them on the streets and offering them...
If a Flat Tax is Good for Iraq, How About America?
Few Americans would want to trade places with the people of Iraq. But come tax time next April, they may begin to wonder who’s better off. That’s because the Iraqis soon will enjoy something we don’t — a simple and fair tax system. Beginning in...
The United Nations: A Totalitarian Appeasing Debating Society
The United Nations rose from the ashes of World War II, when the leaders of the victorious allies agreed to work together to prevent another full-scale war. They founded an organization aimed at maintaining security in a Cold War world. But now the world has been...
Lift the Cuban Travel Ban, Help the Dictator Castro
Members of Congress who want to lift the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba — and there are many — aren’t motivated by a desire to help its infamous dictator Fidel Castro. They simply want to stop “imposing limits on the American people’s right...
Who Hates Israel Now?
Three years after the Palestinians’ violent response to the most generous and practical proposal by an Israeli government to end the decades-long conflict, hatred directed at Israel as a Jewish State has never been as extreme. From paeans to homicide bombings by...
Let Iraqis Run Iraq
What to do in Iraq? The question is made urgent by the steady attrition of coalition forces, punctuated by seven large car-bomb explosions. The latest of them, on Sunday, killed six and wounded dozens at the Baghdad Hotel. More broadly, the briefly held gratitude to...
Will Israel Save Us Again?
The Iranians are on the verge of building nuclear bombs. If this is not stopped, mass death will result. The situation is not entirely without precedent, although the crisis today is immeasurably greater. By 1981 Iraq had a similar program. Had it succeeded, America...
Arafat’s Despotism: Innocent Palestinians are Better Under Israeli Rule
To silence those who oppose him, Arafat shuts down radio and TV stations and imprisons and tortures journalists who criticize the Palestinian Authority.
How to Prevent a ‘Quagmire’ in Iraq: End American Appeasement
Voices on the left argue that Iraq will become a “quagmire” because of U.S. “arrogance” and “unilateralism.” They are actually half-right: disaster may indeed be looming–but only because of a lack of self-assertiveness by the...
Israel’s Fence and the Return to the Barbaric Past
Israel’s proposed border fence, a necessary physical separation between a lawful nation and its homicidal neighbors, is a powerful symbol of the political gulf separating the West from the Arab world. When Israel was founded, its inhabitants established the only...
The U.S. Must Stop Undermining Israel’s War on Terrorism
President Bush acknowledges that Yasser Arafat has “failed as a leader” and recognizes that his promises to fight terrorism are nothing but empty lies. So why does his administration oppose Arafat’s elimination? If Bin Laden or Saddam Hussein were...
The Left Against Israel
“I have developed a habit,” writes Richard Ingrams, a columnist for The Guardian, a far-left British newspaper, “when confronted by letters to the editor in support of the Israeli government to look at the signature to see if the writer has a Jewish...
Trade Deficits with China: An Economic Analysis
The rapidly rising U.S. trade deficit with China is quickly becoming a political issue. Many members of Congress are warning that China needs to take action, such as raising its exchange rate, to deal with this problem before it leads to protectionist legislation. A...
China War on Space-Based Weapons
August 11, 2003 | | What is China’s position on space-based weapons? Considering the gap between what officials in Beijing say and what they do on the issue, it’s hard to get a straight answer. But let’s look at the facts. For some time now, China...
Libya Gets Away With Terrorist Acts Against the United States
At a time when the United States of America are fighting a war against International Terrorism and Terrorist States, the last thing the country needs is the appearance of weakness or appeasement. But the settlement that is looking more and more likely between the...
Africa: A Tragic Continent
Anyone who believes President Bush’s Africa initiative, including sending U.S. troops to Liberia, will amount to more than a hill of beans is whistling Dixie. Maybe it’s overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its...
Israel Should Keep Palestinian Terrorists Locked Up
Israel’s recent release of approximately 400 prisoners – including 210 members of known Arab terrorist organizations – is immoral, as those released directly threaten the lives of Israelis. Though the Palestinian Intifada officially ended — for...
A Turn for the Worst: Turkey’s Radical Turn Toward Islam?
Is this the start of a process that could transform Turkey, for 80 years the stalwart of secularism in the Muslim Middle East, into an Islamic republic?
Venezuela: A New Junket for a Dictator’s best Friend – Jimmy Carter
On the heels of his visit with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, America’s peripatetic ex-president Jimmy Carter has accepted a new invitation. On June 4, Carter was asked by the administration of embattled Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías to help mediate...
Israel’s Best Weapon?
Middle Easterners were widely puzzled in early 1994 when some leading American politicians, including Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) and Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), forwarded more assertive, tougher positions vis-à-vis the Palestinians than did the government of Israel....
United Nation’s International Criminal Court is an Evil Institution
The international community cried crocodile tears when the United States withdrew its support of the UN’s International Criminal Court (ICC). Supporters of the court laughed when the US expressed concern that our soldiers could be prosecuted for war crimes....
U.S. to Israel: Do As We Say
In an agreement brokered last month by U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Palestinian terrorist groups agreed to a temporary cease-fire on condition that Israel ceases its practice of “targeted killings” (executing would-be terrorists before...
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