AUSTIN --- Afghanistan is to nation-building what Afghanistan is
to war -- pretty much the last place on earth you'd choose, if you had any
choice at all. I point this out not to oppose the idea, about which I think
we have no choice,...
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12 October 2001
The Pentagon's air drops of food parcels and President Bush's plea
for American children to aid Afghan kids with dollar bills will go down in
history as two of the most cynical maneuvers of media manipulation in the
early 21st century...
11 October 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Actually, this is pathetic.
And I say this as one who supported military action in the wake of the attacks. I still think we're dealing with a crime, not a war, but it wasn't a crime Interpol...
And I say this as one who supported military action in the wake of the attacks. I still think we're dealing with a crime, not a war, but it wasn't a crime Interpol...
09 October 2001
AUSTIN -- So far, so good. Way to go, military.
It has turned out, in previous campaigns of oxymoronic "surgical bombing," that initial reports exaggerated both the effectiveness and the accuracy of our efforts...
It has turned out, in previous campaigns of oxymoronic "surgical bombing," that initial reports exaggerated both the effectiveness and the accuracy of our efforts...
08 October 2001
When the bombing of Afghanistan resumed Monday night [Oct. 8],
retired generals showed no fatigue at their posts under hot lights at
network studios. On CNN, former NATO supreme commander Wesley Clark teamed
up with Maj. Gen. Don...
04 October 2001
AUSTIN -- Operating on the theory that what we owe our country
in time of crisis is, among other things, our best thinking, let's continue
to think about what America can usefully do now.
We have a bad national...
We have a bad national...