Showing results for: Afghanistan (page 296)
Bitter medicine
Eric Boehlert
A reaction to vaccinations, including anthrax, probably killed 22-year-old Rachael Lacy -- and her grieving father thinks the Army has a lot of questions to answer.
Democrats play nice
Josh Benson
The candidates gather at a major debate and, with the exception of a jilted Joe Lieberman, go easy on Dean.
High drama in Milan
Amanda Griscom
Negotiators at the U.N. Kyoto Protocol conference have been treated to rumors of deliberate sabotage and shady backroom deals, all in the first two days.
The world press on Iraq
Compiled by Laura McClure
Asia Times goes on the job with a Taliban recruiter; Gulf News calls Bush's surprise visit "sneaky and panicked."
Joe Conason’s Journal
Salon Staff
In the U.K., even conservatives criticize Bush's foreign policy decisions.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
David Frum says Bush "surrendered to the radicals" by hiding behind security in London; Gen. Franks predicts another terror attack could dissolve U.S. Constitution; Coulter bashes "pandering" Dems who just discovered their Jewishness.
The Republican Party’s patriotism
Robert Scheer
Equating criticism with cowardice is dirty politics at its absolute lowest.
Republican “Reality”
Charles Taylor
New pro-Bush TV ad targets Dean and other Dem critics -- but has the whiff of desperation.
The chaos of war spreads to Saudi Arabia, Turkey
Mark Follman
Author Jessica Stern says the recent bombings in Istanbul and Riyadh show that the U.S. war on terror is deeply flawed.
“The president ought to be ashamed”
Eric Boehlert
Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts Bush's "Nixonian" stonewalling of the 9/11 commission, his "lies" about Iraq, and his flight-suit photo op on the USS Lincoln after "hiding out" during Vietnam.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "'Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President'," by Jessica Kowal, and "Why the Antiwar Left Must Confront Terrorism," by Mark Follman.
The world press on the Istanbul Jews
Compiled by Laura McClure
Guardian: "Theirs is one of the great anomalies of Jewish history -- a happy story."
“Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President”
Jessica Kowal
As White House denials grow insistent, some of the sharpest thinkers of the Vietnam generation see stark parallels with the war in Iraq.
The hypocrite of Kabul
Ann Marlowe
Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad parachuted into Afghanistan and told the West exactly what it wanted to hear about that nation's women. The truth, as usual, is more complicated.
“Freedom is the Almighty’s gift”
Salon Staff
In an interview with the BBC's David Frost, President Bush expounds upon democracy, Palestine -- and the future of the Iraq war.
Why the antiwar left must confront terrorism
Mark Follman
The director of Amnesty International USA warns that the left must confront terror with the same zeal that it battles Bush -- or risk irrelevance.
Right Hook
Mark Follman
Coulter says Bush didn't need an Iraq plan; O'Reilly blasts the liberal Reagan trashers at CBS; the Weekly Standard gloats at the impotent rage of the "urban and urbane, with-it, refined" Bush haters.
The dangers of democracy
Robert Scheer
When people in fledgling democracies vote against U.S. interests, the CIA steps in.
The great debate, reloaded
Gary Kamiya
Has the Iraq war made Americans safer? Nine months after their first encounter, Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner cross swords once more.
The Democrats’ campaign blues
Tim Grieve
Americans are turning against Bush's disastrous Iraq policy. So why aren't they embracing his presidential rivals?
The world press on the downing of a U.S. Chinook
Compiled by Laura McClure
Newspapers across the world ask: Who's leading the attacks in Iraq?
Clark blasts the poseur in chief
Salon Staff
Wesley Clark says Bush "pranced around in a flight suit" with no long-term strategy for Iraq -- and as U.S. soldiers die daily, there's still no plan.
Oiling up the draft machine?
Dave Lindorff
The Pentagon is quietly moving to fill draft board vacancies nationwide. While officials say there's no cause to worry, some experts aren't so sure.
Camille speaks!
Kerry Lauerman
Paglia returns to cast a withering eye on Clark ("what a phony!"), Kerry ("the hair!"), Madonna ("a monster"), bloggers -- and the "delusional narcissists" in the White House who led an out-of-his-depth president into a disastrous war.
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