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The war to preserve the privilege of mythmaking

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I a...

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Allowing Islamic Sharia law into the constitutions of the U.S-created Islamic (!) Republic of Afghan...

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Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that's got...

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Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women a...

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Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, parallel...

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Samuel P. HuntingtonThe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains eleva...

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When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he mean...

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To fuel yet another war this time against Iraq by cynically manipulating people's grief, by packagin...

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We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and th...

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McChrystal had organized a jaw-dropping counterterrorism campaign inside Iraq, but the tactical succ...

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The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who opp...

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1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani genera...

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During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her back...

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If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twen...

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Christopher HitchensA Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Ma...

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Christopher HitchensAncient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson

You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity...

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George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal an...

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As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humo...

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I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberatio...

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Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was...

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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region t...

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One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.

They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was w...

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