“There was no money, not even a line item, for humanitarian or reconstruction funds for Afghanistan.”
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Month: February 2003
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How not to make the case.
Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons may be the most dangerous course of all.
Plans for humanitarian relief when war starts in Iraq involve estimates of “anywhere from 600,000 to 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers,” plus another million displaced people inside Iraq.
Bin Laden is using the crisis with Iraq to dramatize the conflict he wants Muslims to embrace; he’s doing a bit of rebranding.
Although it might seem that the government shouldn’t be telling the Vatican how to interpret a Christian doctrine, a debate about just war theory is exactly the sort of place where religion and politics should meet.
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Long-term damage.
“After all, what profiteth a man if he gain regime change in Iraq, and yet lose the whole world order in the process?”
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Anti-Semites against the war.
Remember, folks: the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
President Bush’s Christianity strikes me as a species of “all about me” theology: God saved me, God loves me, and God endorses my desires.
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Fall of the House of Sarah.
The store’s last day is Valentine’s Day, so here’s a love letter to the shop and the books I’ve discovered there over the years.
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Saudi reform plans.
“[T]he departure of American soldiers would set the stage for an announcement that Saudis — but probably not women, at least initially — would begin electing representatives to provincial assemblies.”