all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
The local rumor mill, and in some cases Arabic-language satellite television, feed anti-American sentiment with reports of wanton destruction of mosques and battlefield atrocities committed by Americans. But officers complain that there is no...
Armed contractorslike the four men ambushed in Fallujah last weekfall into an international legal gray zone. They aren’t “noncombatants” (as unarmed contractors are) under the 4th Geneva Convention, because they carry weapons and act...
Under assault by insurgents and unable to rely on U.S. and coalition troops for intelligence or help under duress, private security firms in Iraq have begun to band together in the past 48 hours,...
One of the things that most impressed me A Bright Shining Lie was the analysis of the tragicomic situation where Pentagon attempts at “Vietnamization” of the occupation by attempting to train and supply a...
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf complained that the war in Iraq was drawing resources from the battle against Al-Qaeda leaders and their supporters hiding in Pakistan and Afghanistan … Asked if the US-led Iraq war...
More than 60% of all U.S. companies paid no federal tax at all during the boom years of 1996 to 2000, the General Accounting Office reports. In 2000 alone, 94% of all U.S. corporations...
Senator Joseph Biden … compared the US quandary to a 1920 revolt against British colonial rule. “We are caught in the middle. The greatest concern here is a two-front war like the Brits faced.”...
A United Nations report lists police firing of wooden plugs and shot-filled beanbags at antiwar demonstrators last April alongside the world’s worst cases of government defamation and violence against activists in 2003 … That...