For his New Yorker piece, “The General’s Dilemma,” subtitled “David Petraeus, the pressures of politics, and the road out of Iraq,” Steve Coll discussed Iraq with top American and British officers. Since […]
Al-Maliki: Father of his country?
Nota Bene #31
Got hot links if you want ’em! Lawyer John Eisenberg, who’s arguing a case challenging wireless surveillance, quotes a Department of Justice Attorney: “They don’t know. . . . Let me make […]
You can't tell the players in Iraq without a scorecard
Years ago, when Bosnia-Serbia-Kosovo was aflame, I found myself tuning out the conflict because of difficulty tracking all the warring factions. Afterward, I read a book on the subject, Michael Parenti’s “To […]
Ahmadinejad: Champion of Holocaust denial — or the spiritual?
In December 2006 Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kicked off a two-day conference dedicated to examining whether the Holocaust took place. In October 2008 he addressed the audience the International Congress on the […]
