Bush the Pitiful
By: Paul Craig Roberts|10 September, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: George Bush . Pitiful
People are beginning to feel sorry for President George W. Bush. And with good reason. A new poll by Harris Interactive published in the Financial Times reveals that our traditional European allies regard the United States as a much greater threat to world stability than Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. In European opinion, the axis-of-evil is Bush’s America. Almost twice…
Read more »Books Are Our Salvation
By: Paul Craig Roberts|07 September, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Books . Salvation
Those of us who grew up before the time of virtual reality got inspiration from literature and biography. A combative scholar, a good story, the life of an achiever were all part of the mish-mash that formed character. It is still possible to turn off the screen and to pick up a book. Literate Southerners could do worse than to…
Read more »Five Years After and We Still Don't Know
In the five years since three World Trade Center buildings collapsed into their own footprints in virtually free fall time, the convincing power of the official explanation of that day’s events has evaporated. Polls show that 36% of Americans do not believe the official account. As Lev Grossman writes in Time magazine (September 3, 2006), “Thirty-six percent adds up to…
Read more »Pentagon Says War Is Lost
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 September, 2006|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: bush cheney . common sense . iraqi casualties . iraqi government . quarterly progress report . sectarian clashes
The Pentagon’s latest quarterly “progress” report to Congress on Iraq is a grim tale of a lost war. The Pentagon told Congress what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and propaganda organs such as Fox “News” never tell the American public, namely: (1) The Sunni-based insurgency remains “potent and viable” despite spiraling Sunni-Shiite violence and beefed up US forces. (2) Since the last…
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