| Jun 20, 2011 | Peace / SecurityI’d like to propose a new electoral law that would require all Senate candidates to be novelists. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Sen. Jim Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction. Webb, a Virginia Democrat who has...
| | Peace / SecurityJohn Demjanjuk? Now there’s a war criminal for you, and we finally got him. Though he had long lived in the United States, Germany just sentenced him to life in prison. Well, at home actually, since he’s too sick for jail and only has a couple months left....
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| Jun 7, 2011 | Peace / SecurityThe world’s spending more than ever on nuclear weapons. The eight nuclear powers — Britain, China, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the United States — plus North Korea, which aspires to join the atomic club, are collectively pouring...
| Jun 6, 2011 | Peace / SecurityBack in 2004, three years into the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the 9/11 Commission report made its debut to the gushing admiration of the Washington press corps. The report was everything that the mainstream media adores: bipartisan, devoid of divisive finger-pointing,...
| May 30, 2011 | Peace / SecurityI don’t write much about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Mainly, I think, it’s because writing about the Palestinians and Israelis is an exercise without profit. There’s no way to try to take a reasonable stand on the issues involved...
