It appears that Douglas Feith’s book War and Decision is being ignored by the mainstream media. The Observer’s Leon Neyfakh reported that the Washington Post failed to review the book after running a news story off the book’s publication, and…
French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the Knesset today, and after saying that France would always be Israel’s friend, declared that Jerusalem must be divided to make way for the Palestinian capital, and all the Jews in the West Bank must…
I had a big weekend. My father-in-law turned 80 and we celebrated in Philadelphia. I married into a Protestant clan and a lot of the festivities took place in Chestnut Hill, which is the sort of privileged old neighborhood in…
A long time ago I wrote a piece for the New York Observer arguing that the famous talking-points memo was the work of Bruce Lindsey, and Bill Safire mentioned my piece in his Times column, saying it was “brilliant.” My…
I’m reading Douglas Feith’s book War and Decision. As I said the other day, Feith is afraid of the rageful spirit directed toward him and other people who got us into this war, and that fear is written throughout this…
Douglas Feith refused to appear before a congressional committee yesterday, apparently because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson was also set to testify. And Wilkerson has been sharply critical of the neocons. I’m amazed that Feith even has the status that he does….
Former S.C. Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings voted for the disastrous Iraq war resolution in ’02 because he bought the WMD malarkey, he says in his new memoir (from Univ. of South Carolina press). Hollings writes that the real reasons for…
C-Span’s Book TV, which usually pits ideological adversaries, paired up Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, with Robert Kagan, author of The Return of History. Sort of like asking the New England Patriots cheerleaders to interview…
Zbig Brzezinski put his body down, warning Pres Bush to tell the Israelis not to try and bomb Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, because such an attack would soon engulf the U.S. in a wider and longlasting conflict. In Israel, John…