Search results

Thanks, Babak - very interesting, and another set of reasons why war would remain a last resort. You can only hope it's not too optimistic.

from "By way of Syria" by David Warren http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/Comment/Apr03/index132.shtml The rest of this piece also includes some very interesting observations on the Israel-Palestine "Road Map," how Bush intends to have it implemented, and how Syria and Hizbullah figure...

You make it sound like he passed away.

The troops are busy, and many of them are exhausted. Much of the gear has been used up. A Syria operation would be a brand new thing for the public to consider. Unless some "clear and present danger" arises, there are many reasons not to take on another war right now. I haven't noticed...

As for 1, even Blix didn't claim that the Iraqis were complying: Do you have any doubt that he would have said so, with big bold-face capital letters, if he believed that the Iraqis were complying? All he ever said was that "progress" was being made, mostly on "procedural" matters. That was...

From Robert Schwartz's blog: http://surroundedbyem.blogspot.com/

From KANAN MAKIYA'S WAR DIARY April 14 http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=iraq&s=diary041403 From the WaPo via AP, April 12: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14331-2003Apr12.html

As for the topic of this thread, there will be pressure on Syria, as well there should be, but until and unless the Syrians engage in some new, intolerable provocation, or there is some new, bombshell revelation about their current or recent behavior, the odds of a military invasion of Syria...

Gosh, aren't you willing to give the "inspectors" more time? Hans and his crew wanted months more, at least, to complete their work. Just curious - why do you think the former Iraqi government refused to comply fully and proactively with UN demands, if there was nothing to hide?

1. The photo appears to have been taken some indeterminate time after the statue was taken down. 2. It doesn't matter how many Iraqis were actually present in the square on the evening of April 9. Most citizens of the capital very likely didn't even know what was happening, but were...

Say it to the president of Spain.

Many (responsible) people might first make an effort at least to get their simple facts straight - in this instance as to how heads governments and heads of state differ, how they are selected in Europe and to what offices, and how the American system is designed - before they offer sweeping...

From Victor Davis Hanson's latest column: Whole thing at: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson041403.asp

pretentious: 1. making claims, explicit or implicit, to some distinction, importance, dignity, or excellence. 2. showy; ostentatious. It's easy to make an implicit claim to vrai-intellectual insights or abilities.

Hope he's better at head-counting than he is at hiding his biases.

Nice, Max - very entertaining collection. Someone just sent me a link to a site that has collected a special "Gloat and Quote Edition" of erroneous media predictions - though it does tend more to offer examples of left-tending leading questions and hysterical headlines than the unadulterated...

Nor should we be surprised if some of them say "nonsense" - especially the ones who have demonstrated over and over again that they lack personal integrity, and are unable to back up their consistently empty and defamatory attacks on those who disagree with them or who offer opinions and...

Anglosphere: Why do they hate us? By James C. Bennett From the International Desk Published 4/12/2003 6:13 PM WASHINGTON, April 12 (UPI) -- Why do they hate us? This question has been asked incessantly since Sept. 11, 2001. Sometimes it is asked about Muslims in general; sometimes about...

I suppose he means the evidence that confirms that Iraq was mainly a Soviet client, and secondarily a French and German one? That total US military and financial assistance to Iraq was around 1% of what the country received? I don't remember when I asked for this evidence. I thought -...

Don't you mean to ask where we "were": Your iceberg is a generation old. As for where I was: I was organizing and participating in protests, and supporting and participating in Amnesty International, among other groups, and I don't regret it, although I realize I was frequently wrong...