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Kerry's Unwavering Arrogance Written by Frank Salvato Monday, September 27, 2004 It isn’t hard to see, or hear. All one has to do is listen to John Kerry for a bit. His every word drips of it. It emanates from his every action. John Kerry is arrogant. This has never been more obvious than in his recent remarks about Iraq in the face of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s speech to a joint session of Congress. John Kerry essentially said that the prime minister didn’t know what he was talking about and that he, John Kerry, did. We’ve heard about...

Weddings make comeback Since Saddam's downfall, Iraqis are tying the knot in record numbers By Karl Vick, Washington Post BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The fat man in the parking lot of the Babylon Hotel was dancing like a bulldog in a cartoon, index finger twirling in the air, hips swiveling below. A snare drum snapped out a rhythm from the desert. A young man with a red face coaxed a sinuous arabesque from a battered trumpet. And here came the bride. Wrestling her hoop skirt out from the back seat of a decorated BMW, she wore a henna tattoo on her...

While discussion buzzes about a post-Saddam Iraq, few people are talking about a post-Saddam United States even though we should be. Why? Because the political rifts in our society may be as difficult to deal with as the ones with the Arab world, and they hit closer to home. We need a better approach for dealing with dissent and diversity. The war in Iraq creates a sense of unity, with Gallup Polls showing that Bush's overall job approval rating rose to 71 percent after the conflict began, up 13 points from the pre-war level of 58 percent. Historically, however, support...

<p>WASHINGTON — President Bush met with Iraqi exiles Friday in an attempt to illuminate the horror of life under Saddam Hussein's regime, not focus on a plan for governing of Iraq after he is deposed.</p> <p>"The meeting with the free Iraqis and the Iraqi-Americans today is a reminder to people about how much people care about freedom and liberty and how the voices of those who are fortunate enough to have left Iraq and who can speak freely, without being tortured or killed, that these voices here in America represent the voices of the people living inside Iraq today," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said before the meeting.</p>

Remember all that fuss a few years back about imperial over-stretch in the United States? Paul Kennedy's much-hyped, little-read book, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" posited that the huge American deficits of the 1980s were a sign of imminent, or at least unavoidable, American collapse. He was wrong, it turned out. All that defence spending in the 1980s - by helping to bring the Soviet Union to its knees and opening up a quarter of the planet to the global market - turned out to be a bargain. The 1990s - those golden, reckless, Clintonian years of...