If, like me, you are more than a little offended by the spectacle of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the author of some of the most virulent anti-Jewish speeches since Adolf Hitler, being permitted to address a United Nations conference on racism, then… Continue Reading
In the most recent Republican debate, there was an interesting exchange between the three leading candidates concerning the issue of torture. The hypothetical question was placed to the candidates that there had been suicide bombings in the U.S., and a… Continue Reading
The President has found his war czar. Should When things don’t go very well as Iraq’s parliament retires for a two-month recess and eventually reconvenes for its rigorous schedule of meeting for two hours a day three days a week,… Continue Reading
This morning, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki (who earlier warned America that he was “not your man in Iraq”) bowed to pressure from the warlord Moktada al-Sadr, and ordered American troops to lift their checkpointed seige of Sadr City,… Continue Reading