I must confess that I was a little wary of a book about the aftermath of the Iraq War written by someone who actually acknowledges being an "art critic." By the time I actually began reading Steven Vincent's "In the Red Zone: A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq," any reservations I had quickly vanished. […]
I posted a short note earlier this week on the video showing a Marine shooting an insurgent in Fallujah who was feigning death. I'm watching last night's "O'Reilly Factor" and Bill has a naive and dangerous Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch on suggesting that the Marine should face a court-martial for his actions. (Personally, […]
Monday night on MSNBC's "Hardball" program, Chris Matthews had the posed the following question to a guest in connection with the shooting of a possibly unarmed insurgent feigning death: Well, let me ask you about this. If this were the other side, and we were watching an enemy soldier -- a rival, I mean they're […]
The media is making a big hubbub out of a videotape of a Marine killing an apparently wounded insurgent who appears to be faking death. Buried in the CNN story is a fact that has a significant impact on why the Marine might have behaved with an excess of caution. About a block away, a […]
So Saddam Hussein pocketed $21.3 billion from the U.N.'s oil-for-palaces program -- nearly twice previous estimates. So what does Democrat Sen. Carl Levin have to say about it at yesterday's hearings? Despite the findings, the committee's ranking Democrat, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, said "for the most part, the UN sanctions achieved their intended objective […]
Marines and soldiers have begun the assault on the terrorist stronghold of Fallujah. Say a prayer for their safety and their success.
If you think what appears in The New York Times doesn't have an effect on what you see or hear in your little corner of the country, think again. The Times report on 380 tons of missing high explosive in Iraq appeared in papers across the country. The story has been used by the media […]
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is obviously part of some convoluted Karl Rove-inspired dirty tricks plot. The religious broadcaster and former presidential candidate said that President Bush had told him that there would be no casualties from the invasion of Iraq. Robertson is obviously mistaken -- he can't be lying, because he supports President Bush. Though […]
After the Holocaust, the cry from human rights activists was "never again." Never again would the world dwadle while genocide and mass murder on a massive scale went on anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, that vow over the past 60 years has been predictably useless. In Rwanda, the world did nothing as hundreds of thousands […]
Near the end of the panel discussion, National Public Radio's Juan Williams made the claim that the White House had written Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech to Congress and comments with the president at a Rose Garden ceremony. Dear Chris, Juan Williams claimed that the White House wrote Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's speech […]