On a September morning in 490 B.C., 9,000 free citizen soldiers from Athens watched the 26,000 Persians, disembarking their ships that were beached beside the plain of Marathon. On the bluffs above, the Athenian general, Militiades, saw that the Persians were not fully prepared. Their archers, who could flood the sky with arrows, were not [...]
“We have found no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.” Statement No. 15 , 9/11 Commission Staff Report Iraq continue(d) to be a safe haven a transit point, and operational node for groups and individuals who direct violence against the U.S., Israel, and our allies. Senate Intelligence Report, [...]
Can there be anything more sacred or more defining for a Kerry-voting liberal than the certain knowledge that our war in Viet Nam was evil? Yet in a remarkable twist of fate, the Kerry campaign continues to compel us to revisit the Viet Nam era. Therefore, Bruce Herschensohn’s Passport, the definitive novel of the Cold [...]
DUBAI (AFP) – Osama bin Laden (OBL) attempted to communicate with Al-Qaeda’s front man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, through a letter that was seized when a ground courier in Pakistan was intercepted. A US counter-terrorism official said in Washington last month that OBL had suggested to Zarqawi that he get [...]
With the guilty plea of that highly-bribed lobbyist, Samir Vincent, another shoe has dropped in the Oil for Food Iraq Theft (OFFIT), a swindle that may just be the largest in the long history of human thievery. Because of its massive size and depravity, it will serve to further discredit [...]
With the reelection of George Bush, the world has been put on notice that his doctrine of preemption will stay in place and that the U.S., in waging war on terror, will stay on offense. If new theaters are opened and the conflict widens or worsens, it’s apparent the country’s mettle and resolve will be [...]
Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference: He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Bill Clinton Many veteran observers have mused that had the American press in the early 1940s been as virulently anti-FDR as they are today anti-Bush, the allies may very well [...]
We have found no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States. Statement No. 15 9/11 Commission Report In the midst of all the pro-Kerry media having gotten into a lock-step rant over the 9/11 commission report, into the breach comes the new Stephen Hayes book, The Connection: How al [...]
By April 1904, 100 years ago this month, Jack London, the illegitimate son of Flora Wellman, had become world-famous and the best-selling American writer west of the Mississippi. It had been a banner, breakthrough year for the author and “revolutionist.” At a Piedmont hill-top hideaway he called the “Bungalow,” Jack London, a boyish man of 27 [...]
Venona and In Denial Books by Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr John Carey is the newly anointed president of the Bush-lied opposition. But now that the Iraqi Governing Council has approved a bill of rights and the most democratic constitution in the Arab world, informed, principled objections to the success of the Iraq war continue [...]
