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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...
Engelhardt: George Bush's Crusading Scorecard (2001-2007)
Znet Article, January, 19 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Just five days after the September 11th attacks in 2001, in a Q and A with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, a President with a new ...
Engelhardt: Surging from Kenai
Znet Article, January, 12 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Surging from Kenai
Engelhardt: Let's Do It Again!
Znet Article, January, 03 2007
Tom Engelhardt
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Okay, folks, it's time for a year-opening sermon. And like any good sermon, this one will be based on illustrative texts, in this case from 2006, and inspirational passages plucked from them. Its goal, as in any such quest, will be to reveal a wor...
Engelhardt: Good Evening, Vietnam
Znet Article, December, 19 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Although Vietnam flooded instantly back into American consciousness as the invasion of Iraq was launched in March 2003--along with its ancient vocabulary f...
Engelhardt: 'Fixing' the War
Znet Article, December, 14 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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'Fixing' the War
Engelhardt: Rumsfeld's Last Stand
Znet Article, December, 05 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Last week, someone slipped New York Times...
Engelhardt: How to Stay in Iraq
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Finally, the President and the New York Times agree. In a news conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister last week, George W. Bush insisted ...
Engelhardt: No Exit?
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Things are always complicated. In the Washington Post, for instance, James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans rece...
Engelhardt: Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave
Znet Article, November, 08 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Outlaw Empire Meets the Wave
Engelhardt: Return of the Body Count?
Znet Article, October, 28 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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It's been clear since the Afghan War began in 2001 that no one had the Vietnam analogy more programmatically on their brains than the Bush team in the White House and the Pentagon. It was visibly clear that they went into Iraq in 2003 playing an o...
Engelhardt: Why Baghdad Will Keep Burning
Znet Article, October, 27 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Why Baghdad Will Keep Burning
Engelhardt: The Bush Administration's War of the Images
Znet Article, October, 25 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, speaking of his war in Iraq, George Bush put the Vietnam anal...
Engelhardt: James Baker's Iraq
Znet Article, October, 13 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Americans, wherever they may actually stand, love to present themselves as in the moderate middle of any debate, just as politicians regularly gravitate toward the "center," no matter how far out it may happen to be. Recently, Bush family consigli...
Engelhardt: George Bush's War of the Words
Znet Article, October, 09 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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For Homer, those epithets attached to his heroes and gods were undoubtedly mnemonic devices -- the fleet-footed Achilles, Poseidon, the Earth-shaker, the wily Odys...
Engelhardt: George Bush's Iraq in 21 Questions
Znet Article, September, 29 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Recently, in one of many speeches melding his Global War on Terror and his war in Iraq, George W. Bush said, "Victory in Iraq will be difficult an...
Engelhardt: The Facts on the Ground
Znet Article, September, 22 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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This August, a site of shame, shared by Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush, was emptied. Abu Ghraib prison is the place where Saddam's functionaries tortured (and sometimes killed) many enemies of his regime, and where Bush's functionaries, as a se...
Engelhardt: Thank You, America
Znet Article, September, 21 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Thank You, America
Engelhardt: The Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq (Finally) Revealed
Znet Article, September, 13 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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You've heard the President and Vice President say it over and over in various ways: There was a connection between the events of September 11, 2001 and Ira...
Engelhardt: 9/11 in a Movie-Made World
Znet Article, September, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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9/11 in a Movie-Made World
Engelhardt: The Contemporary Barbarism Of Air Power
Znet Article, September, 02 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive and brutal to us. They kidnap or capture someone, American or Iraqi, and cut off his head. Now, isn't t...
Engelhardt: The U.S. in Iraq: Part of the Problem
Znet Article, August, 21 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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The single most basic fallacy underlying the present American catastrophe in Iraq is the belief that the U.S. can somehow solve that country's problems, however extreme and intractable they may seem; that, in short, we are part of the solution in ...
Engelhardt: Hiroshima Story
Znet Article, August, 07 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Hiroshima Story
Engelhardt: Degrading Behavior
Znet Article, July, 28 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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Barbarism seems an obvious enough category. Ordinarily in our world, the barbarians are them. They act in ways that seem unimaginably primitive and brutal to us. For instance, they kidnap or capture someone, American or Iraqi, and cut off his head...
Engelhardt: The Middle East Aflame and the Bush Administration Adrift
Znet Article, July, 17 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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So, as the world spins on a dime, where exactly are we? ...
Engelhardt: The Destabilization Game
Znet Article, July, 06 2006
Tom Engelhardt
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One of these days, some scholar will do a little history of the odd moments when microphones or recording systems were turned on or left on, whether on purpose or not, and so gave us a bit of history in the raw. We have plenty of American examples...
