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Withdrawal maneuvers: Throw into this mix the first rumors of the return of the draft (see, e.g., Toronto Star, 11/5/03), add…
Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt created and runs the website TomDispatch.com. He is also a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. A fellow of the Type Media Center, his sixth and latest book is A Nation Unmade by War.
Here are parts of a rather ordinary summary report on 24 hours in Iraq from Slobodan Lekic of the Associated Press. They…
[Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal visited the U.S. Army’s 21st Combat Support Hospital in Balad, Iraq. It handles American casualties…
Though we arrived in Iraq speaking the language of liberation (in English only) and most Iraqis were relieved initially to have the…
In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were…
Quote of the day: “Officially, administration officials say that they had expected the drop in support for the president, and that they…
[Tom Engelhardt wrote the following introduction, slightly revised here, to Sheila Johnson’s essay below.] On August 26th, the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius…
Most of the war words from the Vietnam years have rushed back so fast it’s deafening. Perhaps it’s not surprising that, in…
Can’t you feel the war already slipping away, just like Saddam Hussein or Mullah Omar or Osama Bin Laden? How briefly triumphal…
Years ago, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm produced a book, The Journalist and the Murderer, in which she claimed that the essence…