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Our political leaders, informed observers, the populace at large - all had their input. The standing policy certainly wasn't "working" in the sense that SH's regime appeared substantially closer to being dislodged in 2001 than it did in 1998. Indeed, in many respects the opposite was true...

Naturally. [b] Actually, our government is based on representation, not direct democracy. In accepting the Constitution and the government it established, "We the People" recognized that we couldn't all individually be consulted on every aspect of policy. So, in that sense, you get...

It seems that you need to be reminded over and over that, before Bush assumed office, US policy was already committed to regime change in Iraq, according to the Iraqi Relations Act of 1998, passed with bipartisan support under Bush's predecessor. You also seem to need to be reminded that the...

Yeah, right, try to climb back on your high horse. Helps to ignore almost everything I wrote other than how I signed off, doesn't it? You made one exception - a willful misreading of my comparison of your comments regarding Clinton to your comments regarding Bush. Did I say or imply that...

[/b] The willingness to "question authority" is certainly, in my opinion, a positive value to uphold for citizens in a democracy, but by itself it allows for only a negative politics, and becomes a kind of anti-establishment elitism, reflecting an unwillingness to take a stand and face the...

Symposium: Bush’s Decision to Go to War. Was it Justified? By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | July 4, 2003 As the controversy over the missing Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq escalates, so does the criticism of President Bush and his decision to go to war. Was the liberation of...

In your next post are you going to revert to standing up for objective, non-partisan discussion? If I were to tell you that I found your rhetoric repulsive and contemptible, not to mention stupid, would you then accuse me, as you have elsewhere accused others as well as me, of trying to...

It's rather hard to believe also that the firms themselves don't have failsafes against huge mis-trades built into their software. I guess it's conceivable that there might be instances when a firm might really want to dump 1000 contracts or 10000 or 100000 instantly, but it wouldn't take...

"Anything" has always gone for extremists. I wouldn't say that's what makes the world go round, but it does contribute to the overall tilt from time to time. Presuming that anyone who is "on the left" or who expresses perspectives associated with the left is "loony, stupid, treasonous...

COMMENTARY July 5, 2003 Flypaper There are currently three main theatres of -- not war, precisely, but something resembling it, within the Middle East. One is the civil insurrection in Iran, which has continued to escalate, even though the media have withdrawn their attention again...

As I've tried repeatedly to explain, in my opinion the anti-Bush position in that article went far beyond conventional criticism: The writer argues that "the United States under George Bush" is really controlled by a "ruling junta." The government itself was installed, he claims, by a kind...

I don't want to make too much out of the article: It is just one piece written by one individual. However, he was not, apparently, writing for a domestic audience, but rather for foreign readers, and his viewpoints, as I said, were of a type that would give license to the most extreme forms of...

I wrote that "the author is also implying that all of America that doesn't support Bush has been cowed into abject submission and silence, looking on quietly while the next war of aggression is plotted and all values they hold precious are being trampled." If I belonged to that rest of...

I suppose I could have critiqued the entire piece line by line. Instead, I gave two examples, one for each charge - in sum: LIE: That there's been a news blackout in the US regarding the aftermath of the Iraq war and the difficulties encountered. STUPIDITY (connected to the above lie)...

What I found distasteful were the lies advanced on behalf of an extreme anti-American viewpoint. Opponents of the "right wingers" might take some vicarious pleasure in the idea of Bush being made out as some fascist tyrant, but the author is also implying that all of America that doesn't...

I'm not sure what msfe is trying to show with this biographical capsule on the author of the Vorwaerts piece: that the piece may not have been "translated," but perhaps was written in English by an American intellectual? Is that supposed to make its dishonesty and stupidity less dishonest and...

June 27, 2003, 8:45 a.m. Old and in the Way The American Street has sized up best the new paradoxes of foreign policy. by Victor Davis Hanson The events following 9/11 created an "empire" industry — millions of words written by pundits claiming that by intervening in Afghanistan and...

Geez - what happened to you, Optional? For weeks you've been pleading for centrist, objective approaches, and now you're c&p-ing harsh polemical attacks on the Bush administration - now adding an article translated from Vorwaerts, the party publication of Germany's SPD (Social-Democratic Party...

Leftists for Bush by Oliver Kamm As a European onlooker of liberal-Left views, I was disappointed at Bush's election. The Clinton-Gore administration had been often feckless and sometimes squalid; having promised much, it was not after all consistently 'New Democrat'; and Clinton himself...

Criticizing a President for not visiting countries in states of chaos and civil war is a ludicrous cheap shot, and, even if we accept for sake of argument the article's simplistic and dubious characterization of the administration's Iraq war aims, justifications, and alliances, the overall theme...