Under Terry Gross’s fine questioning on Fresh Air today, Hans Blix pointed out that the U.N.’s reports on WMD in Iraq proved to be much more accurate than all the national reports on the same question, from the U.S. and…
The My Lai massacre, of hundreds of civilians, took place in March 1968 and didn’t break the surface for a year and a half: November 1969. This time it’s only dozens dead and we only had to wait four months…
Tonight the NBC Nightly News doggedly began its broadcast with a report from the levees of New Orleans at the onset of hurricane season rather than where CBS and ABC began: with the Haditha massacre and the European-U.S. coalition visavis…
Is Condi Rice’s warm-and-fuzzy opening to Iran, after President Ahmedinejad’s man-to-man letter to President Bush, a signal of a sharply soft turn in an Administration desperate to shore up public trust, not just in Europe but in the U.S.A.? I…
When I tuned in C-Span for the White House briefing today, they were reairing this morning’s Washington Journal call-in. In the space of five minutes I heard two attacks on the closeness of U.S. policy to Israel. Both callers described…
Entering the White House press room today, Tony Snow commented that it was nice to be in a warm space. “My office is freezing.” David Frum makes the same point in The Right Man, his (sometimes-charming) memoir of working for…
The Times has a fine piece today on Hillary Clinton that mentions that Jonathan Tasini is going to primary her over her dismal Iraq policy. This touches on the LA Times articleI mentioned a couple days back that says that…