Self-Inflicted Terror

Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in Of Interest, War on Terror | No Comments »

Zbigniew Brzezinski on the "War on Terror": The damage these three words have done -- a classic self-inflicted wound -- is infinitely greater than any wild dreams entertained by the fanatical perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks when they were plotting against ...

The language of war is victims

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in Torture, War on Terror | 2 Comments »

This will seem like a victory only to those who are not disturbed the fact that these confessions originate from a military tribunal, under conditions we can only assume include torture, in the legal netherworld of Guantanamo. Or for those ...

This is a Wahr! (A Tale, Told by an Idiot, Full of Shock and Awe ….)

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Essays, Iraq, War on Terror | 1 Comment »

Another Washington Journal moment: "This is a Wahr," the old woman reminded us. "This" -- not two wars, the war on terror and the war in Iraq, the first a made-up fantasy and the second elective folly. The first not ...