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And then there is Iran. Media coverage clearly points to the increasing likelihood of a U.S.-Israel offensive war against Iran. Do Americans want war with Iran? Can their economy stand what will be another unending war? Do 300 million Americans want to take on 1.4 billion Muslims who will be at least temporarily united after Washington and Israel start a war on Iran? Do these same Americans really want the violence in their towns and cities that Iran will sponsor after it is attacked? Can Americans trust their generals to put U.S. interests first after seeing General Petraeus kiss the...

-snip- The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast, graded court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, Praetorian guards, snipers, centurions, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that’s when he travels in the U.S. -snip- After all, the long-term mean value of paper currency is zero. Is the dollar magic, so that it is permanently immune from the norm? For the last 100 years, it has lost value more quickly than the Roman denarius after Nero. -snip-

Llewellyn Rockwell: Leftist Darling Posted by Jacob Laksin @ Monday 26 September 2005, 4:59 pm Llewellyn Rockwell, proprietor of Lew Rockwell.com, the site that deals in leftist-like anti-Americanism in the cloak of "classical liberalism," has been a dependable cheerleader for America’s enemies in the "war on terror," and he keeps that ignoble tradition going with his speech this weekend at an Alabama anti-war rally convened by the far left. Rockwell is full of curious insights. For instance, did you know that "war is a kind of totalitarianism," and that "George Bush was brazen enough to make the doctrine explicit"? Yes, it’s...

I think that it has been well established that "conservatives" or whatever it is they call themselves these days (e.g., storm troopers) in matters concerning politics value little more than the state's power in which they imagine themselves to participate and the supposed glory that war and domestic national securitism brings to them. Now strictly speaking this is a delusion, because their only access to power lies in the accidental agreement of their opinions with those of the managers of the state. This access will evaporate as soon as the state does something that displeases our conservatives. It is always...

If we aren't attentive, Bill Buckley's antiwar pronouncement, issued in an interview with the New York Times, could be relegated to a minor footnote in this week's news pages, whereas it really speaks volumes about the history of the last 50 years and the fall of American freedom in the push for perpetual war. What he said, in his famously circuitous way, was this: "With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn't the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation...