A warm welcome for Japan’s Iraq hostages
Japanese hostages released from their Iraqi captors returned home this weekend to a bill from the government for their rescue and a public scolding from the prime minister. Japan is…
A summer rant
By Matt Kaste Friends,When Republicans (the New Radicals) go on the offensive, thousands of innocent people die, the environment is further damaged, the poor and middle-classes get stiffed and the…
Military Maths
The US army does not keep a tally of the people it kills or injures. “We do not do body counts” we are told by General Tommy Franks. Why then…
Baghdad still burning
On this page I have pointed out the Baghdad blog Baghdad Burning/Riverbend written by a young Iraqi woman who apparently lives right in Baghdad. She is very forthright, and to…
Told you so … No.987,324 in an infinite series
Told you so. After the Madrid bomb, I said in an entry on this page we should expect an attack against Japanese civilians to lever out the Japanese army from…
The way cowards kill people
Saddam Hussein’s sons died fighting the US army. Their father seemed happy to be found alive. When the Israeli army battered down the walls to his compound, Arafat foretold his…
The free and the brave
Troops of the most powerful nation on the planet are besieging cities in one of the most damaged countries and killing its civilians. The US military tell us that they…
George F Will and the anti-Semitic left
The left are all anti-Semites. So says the Washington Post’s intellectual-in-residence George F. Will. This clearly sensible charge comes in a WP column titled ‘The left’s latest radical chic: anti-Semitism’…