In an election year when no topic was too trivial or too stupid to engage the rapt fascination of journalists and politicians, there was one matter that drew no attention whatsoever until the last week. It was a subject that has been treated as taboo by the U.S. government and most media sources: How many Read More
Less than 60 seconds into his first two-minute answer at last Thursday night’s Presidential debate, the Democratic candidate made the single most important statement about Iraq in this campaign, and he made it with the clarity and brevity that so often eludes him.
“We’re now 90 percent of the casualties in Iraq,” said Senator John Read More
EDITOR’S NOTE: After a long and painstaking review of the editorial process here at The New York Times , along with a long and sobering look at the rise of adult-onset attention-deficit disorder, along with a clear and pragmatic need to increase our appeal among upscale readers, The Times is pleased to announce a slight Read More
Najaf
and Falluja are the open sores on the body of
Iraq. Najaf is the base of radical
Shiites, Falluja of former Baathists; one is the hotbed of aspiring tyrants,
the other of unemployed tyrants. Tyranny on its way up or down is a volatile
state, and we have the task, unlovely and unloved, of Read More
The wars of our minds end clean, with a last fight, a handshake if the foe is worthy and a tribunal if he is not-Grant and Lee at Appomattox, or the seedy collection of seeming bookies, con men and child molesters who were in fact the Nuremberg defendants. In either case, the work of battle Read More
