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Yes, the first thing we'll do if we have any questions is consult a "whole-heartedly" anti-American, pro-Taliban, Saddamite Argentinian for his most reductive and self-servingly simpleminded judgments on the matter.

Well-stated, though I think you may have been a bit hard on MondoTrader: True, he's gotten excessive at points, but he's been responding to some rather extreme and scurrilous statements, in a time of war, and I doubt he's really in favor of putting the D's in concentration camps (though maybe...

Many comments relevant to the discussion here of international law and sovereignty. In my completely unbiased and unprejudiced opinion, it's a great essay, and deserves to be read in full, and savored. Also happens to show, as if it needed to be shown, that not all European intellectuals have...

Apology accepted, and congratulations for acknowledging your overstatement regarding the "universality" of anti-American sentiment. Though I disagree with you strongly on many issues as well as on political philosophy, and though I've taken issue with many other of your specific statements and...

Let's be precise: "Occupation" is much different from presence, though I believe that in extreme situations, such as the situation in Iraq, many consider occupation by American forces to be preferable to the available alternatives. As previously, I would refer you to Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE...

This piece from the Arab News - which, as I've noted, has been editorially anti-invasion - is one of the more interesting, both because of its source and because of its own take on the "camera effect," whose existence I'll glady acknowledge, but whose function in this situation I believe you...

It's also a bad assumption (that Arabs universally detest having American troops in their countries) because it flies in the face of plentiful evidence to the contrary. Our leading Argentinian leftist radical chose to ignore an attempt to challenge him on his assumptions. Maybe he missed it...

Despite the insistence of various contributors on these threads that the Iraq war is indisputably "illegal," there is nothing approaching consensus on this point. As for US Constitutional matters and domestic law, there was no literal "declaration of war" in 1990-1, either. The idea of...

I suppose that's how a post providing material relevant to the supposed topic of this thread will "sound" - presuming that you apply the same mature analytical skills and evenhandedness that led you elsewhere to define Saddam's regime as "yucky" but possibly "not that intolerable," to determine...

I'm disappointed in you. From our earlier exchanges, I thought you were seeking a sober, even-handed judgment of events. Instead, you've adopted the language and presumptions of an hysterical ideologue. You and your comrades will have to make up your minds eventually. Sometimes, you like...

April 4, 2003 7:15 a.m. The Train Is Leaving the Station Will our “friends” jump on in time? by Victor Davis Hanson Wars disrupt the political landscape for generations. Changes sweep nations when their youth die in a manner impossible during peace. An isolationist United States...

I've never heard of anyone suggesting this idea that the US could or should have sought UN approval for a new set of war aims in '91. There is no reason to believe that non-coalition Security Council members Russia and China would have endorsed such a move. Indeed, though the Russians...

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I could link you to several articles describing positive reactions to the invasion, and to the troops directly, among Iraqi Arabs. Some include video or pictures. One such article even comes from the Arab News - which, big surprise, has taken a strong editorial stance against the invasion...

The evidence of Hussein's links to terrorist organizations of various types is, in my opinion, overwhelming. I'm not sure though that individuals who doubt, say, the evidence of the Iraqi regime's extreme and systematic human rights abuses, or of its genocidal repression of the Kurds and Shia...

If you haven't seen proof of this link, then you are either unpersuadable or haven't been paying attention.

A bit part of her sex appeal is her throaty voice (I think she may be a heavy smoker), and her somber, sleepless expression. Kiran Chetry's pretty in kind of a sorority sister all-cleaned-up kind of way, but you can tell that Rym lives and feels deeply. Plus I'm pretty sure that she's been...

Hands off, Babak! She's mine!

I guess someone forgot to tell him that getting rid of Saddam's army of murderous parasites was "shameful" and "illegal."

Remind you of anyone? "Where others clunk around in darkness, these people know that they shine a uniquely informed light on world events. They know that, while the rest of us are brainwashed by Hollywood, they understand the baleful influence of 'Western imperialism.' Ask them for...