Month: September 2008

Gaza: `an atrocity, a crime, an abomination’

So said Jimmy Carter several months ago. Since that time, the Free Gaza Movement acted to break the siege of Gaza, which is not only killing Gazans, but traumatizing its population. This letter by Eyad el-Sarraj, a psychiatrist...

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Fred Kagan’s Lament

Fred Kagan tells me that we’re not getting any oil for blood and that it’s all the fault of a few Democrats. Indeed, the first major foreign contract the Iraqis signed was with the big, bad Chinese. Can you imagine...

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It’s the War, Stupid

by Jeff HuberNo nation has ever profited from a long war. –Sun Tzu $85 billion to bail out American International Group, huh?  That’s on top of $30 billion to keep Bear Sterns out of the soup line, and $200...

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Ho Hum

Seven American troops killed “over there.” BAGHDAD (AFP) — Seven American soldiers were killed on Thursday when their transport helicopter crashed in southern Iraq, the deadliest such incident in the country for over...

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