More starvation and disease or bombers and cruise missiles--these are the only actual choices Washington offers Iraq. No wonder Saddam will risk being bombed to end the economic blockade. United Nations’ authorities have officially recognized Iraq’s compliance with Resolution 687, the basic cease fire resolution, for the destruction of all its
Reassessing the U.S. Presidency October 16-17, 1998 Callaway Gardens and Warm Springs, Georgia The worst of the allegations against the president are alarming. But American history is littered with examples of abuses of executive power that go well beyond personal corruption. Where can you go in the library to find the truth about the havoc U.S.
The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn is the best book ever written on the New Deal, the drive to war, and the terrible consequences of the FDR presidency. A new edition of the book, with a brilliant introduction by Ralph Raico, is now available for $25 (hardback) on mises.org. See The Roosevelt Myth The Investors Business Daily (Dec 3, 1998) ran
The Guts, Not the Glory, of Fighting the ‘Good War’ By Paul Fussell Washington Post , Sunday, July 26, 1998; Page C01 Instructed by his experience as a volunteer in Civil War military hospitals, Walt Whitman declared that the real war will never get in the books. Nor in films either, we can say, after we’ve seen attempts to represent more recent
You arrive home to discover you’ve been burglarized. In retaliation, you “strike back” by randomly spraying machine-gun fire up and down the street, killing passers-by and destroying a medical clinic. An irresponsible act? Terrorism, perhaps? After its bombing raids in Sudan and Afghanistan, the U.S. stands roughly in the position of this
Chronicles December 1998 Polemics & Exchanges Freedom and School Vouchers Milton Friedman: Lew Rockwell (”Flies in the Ointment,” September) and I have the same ultimate objective: “an educational market in which parents are responsible for paying for their own children’s education.” We agree also on “the twin evils of public education:
[speech delivered in February 1998, as the U.S. prepared to embark on another bombing campaign against Iraq.] Is the U.S. world empire decaying? At first glance, this may seem an odd time to be asking the question. The U.S. is prepared to embark on an openly political war with no basis in just war theory. It can only end in further massive
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