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Engelhardt: The Withdrawal Follies
Znet Article, July, 27 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Withdrawal is now so mainstream. Last week, debate about it led to a sleep-in protest in the Senate and, this week, it's hit the cover of ...
Engelhardt: Wrong Again!
Znet Article, July, 17 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Okay, it's another lemon, the second you've bought from the same used-car lot -- and for $1,000 more than the first. The transmission is a mess; the muffler's clunking; smoke's seeping out of the dashboard; and you've only had it a week. You took ...
Engelhardt: 'Accidents' of War
Znet Article, July, 10 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The first news stories about the most notorious massacre of the Vietnam War were picked up the morning after from an Army publicity release. These proved fairly typical for the war. On its front page, the New York Times labeled the operation in an...
Engelhardt: Iraq by the Numbers
Znet Article, June, 28 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Iraq by the Numbers
Engelhardt: The Great American Disconnect
Znet Article, June, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Finally, the great American disconnect may be ending. Only four years after the invasion of Iraq, the crucial facts-on-the-ground might finally be coming into sight in this country -- not the carnage or the mayhem; not the suicide car bombs or the...
Engelhardt: The Colossus of Baghdad: Wonders of the Imperial World
Znet Article, May, 29 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by earth...
Engelhardt: Close Your Eyes
Znet Article, May, 18 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Close Your Eyes
Engelhardt: What Price Slaughter?
Znet Article, May, 14 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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What Price Slaughter?
Engelhardt: Bush's Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Znet Article, May, 01 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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It had taken much thought and planning that wartime May Day four years ago when George W. Bush co-piloted an S-3B Viking sub reconnaissance Naval jet onto the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Scott Sforza, a former ABC producer, had "embedded" him...
Engelhardt: Iraq: The Language of War
Znet Article, April, 17 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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My aunt Hilda, whose very name came from some other century, once told me her earliest memory: She was a little girl standing under a large tree in the backyard of her house in Brooklyn, New York, and she cried out for help. Her mother (my grandmo...
Engelhardt: Six Crises in Search of an Author
Znet Article, April, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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One night when I was in my teens, I found myself at a production of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. I had never heard of the playwright or the play, nor had I seen a play performed in the round. The actors were dramatically ent...
Engelhardt: The President's Global War of Terror
Znet Article, April, 05 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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On Tuesday, meeting with the press in the White House Rose Garden, the President responded to a question about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to...
Engelhardt: Demobilizing America
Znet Article, March, 25 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Excuse me if, at 62, and well into my second era of protest against yet another distant, disastrous, and disabling American war, I express a little confusion. Was it actually like this in Rome while the legions were off fighting on the German fron...
Engelhardt: The Seymour Hersh Mystery
Znet Article, March, 14 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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The Seymour Hersh Mystery
Engelhardt: Hostages to Policy
Znet Article, March, 07 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Hostages to Policy
Engelhardt: Thelma and Louise Imperialism
Znet Article, February, 09 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Let me make an argument about Bush administration Iran policy -- about the possibility that a regime-change-style, shock-and-awe air assault might someday be launched on Iranian nuclear facilities and associated targets -- based on no insider know...
Engelhardt: Forgotten Afghanistan
Znet Article, February, 05 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Afghanistan remains the forgotten war and yet, in an eerie lockstep with Iraq, it seems to be following a distinctly Bush administration-style path toward "the gates of hell." While almost all attention in Washington and the U.S. media has been fo...
Engelhardt: The Forgotten American Dead
Znet Article, January, 27 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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When we hear about the American dead in Iraq, we normally learn about the circumstances in which they died. Last Saturday, for instance, was, for American troops, the third ...
Engelhardt: Thinking Vietnam, Fighting in Iraq
Znet Article, January, 22 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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It's been a repetitive phenomenon of these last years--when fears about disaster (or further disaster, or even the farthest reaches of disaster) in Iraq rise, so does the specter of Vietnam. Despite the obvious dissimilarities between the two situ...
