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In Search of James Mattoon Scott
Classic SARTRE: "A Splendid Little War" Whose War Is It?
We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty. - Rudolph Rummel
Dehomogenizing the Antiwar Movement
by William L. Anderson
As was to be expected, the various factions following the horrific attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon are
becoming more etched in stone - and are the targets of each others wrath. Those of us who have written for LewRockwell.com
have made arguments that seem to be similar to those made by people like Ramsey Clark and others, who have been professional
leftists for the past half century, along with the newest leftists who wish to recapture the "glory years" of the
anti-Vietnam War protests.
FULL Article - LewRockwell.com
America must rediscover values to reclaim identity
by GERALD WARNER
AND then there was none. Last Tuesday, the only superpower remaining from the old world order of the 20th century collapsed
into the debris of Manhattan and the Pentagon. For once, the instinct of American commentators to embrace the most apocalyptic
interpretation of events was right: nothing will ever be the same again.
FULL Article - ScotlandOnSunday.com
An Eye for an Eye: Not the Answer
by David Dieteman
Perhaps you remember that Osama bin Laden blew up the USS Cole in Aden harbor. Perhaps you have noticed that the US has not
yet retaliated for this attack on a military target.
At the time, in an article entitled "Warmongering Defined,"
I wrote that there are those commentators who are too ready to beat the drums for war, and to send others to their deaths.
Again, for the record, my brother-in-law was an officer on the Cole. He survived the attack and the ensuing ordeal.
FULL Article - LewRockwell.com
WAR HYSTERIA ADDLES THE BRAIN
by Justin Raimondo
Every time we have a major bout of war hysteria, a few libertarians bite the dust and, under the pressure of a highly emotional
atmosphere, go over to the War Party. Myles Kantor, a columnist for LewRockwell.com, is the latest war casualty, finally coming
out of the closet as a chest-thumping warmonger with a screed directed not only at me, but at Harry Browne, past standard-bearer
of the Libertarian Party. I'll let Harry take care of himself, since he's perfectly capable of dealing with such a transparent
ploy. You see, Kantor also writes a regular column for Frontpage, David Horowitz's internet soapbox, and his piece, "Soft-Pedaling
the Barbarians," is an attempt to score points with the neoconservatives: "Oh, puh-leeze be assured I'm not a libertarian
in the same sense as that radical Harry Browne, and that awful Justin Raimondo!" For some reason, he doesn't mention
Lew Rockwell, and his fellow columnists at LewRockwell.com, whose views are roughly consistent with mine. But then again,
that wouldn't help his career all that much. Oh, but don't worry, Myles, we never did think your libertarianism was anything
other than an affectation, and now our suspicions have been confirmed.
FULL Article - anti-war.com
When Will We Learn?
by Harry Browne
The terrorist attacks against America comprise a horrible tragedy. But they shouldn't be a surprise.
It is well known
that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. But sanity was a prior casualty:
it was the loss of sanity that led to war in the first place.
FULL Article - antiwar.com
The Price of Empire
by Alan Bock
One can understand the shock, the horror, the unbelief as the war most Americans didn't know was going on or didn't choose
to acknowledge came home in such a brutal, deadly fashion in lower Manhattan and the Pentagon. This was obviously a coordinated
attack, carried out with skill and stealth. Its success reflects a failure of Intelligence and intelligence on a massive scale.
FULL Article - antiwar.com
IMPERIAL PARALYSIS
The fragility of American power
by Justin Raimondo
Although it is far too early to tell, it looks like the grand-scale invasion of Afghanistan and virtually the entire Middle
East envisioned by our more aggressive warhawks is not about to happen. While the President's speech to Congress clearly
identified the Taliban as a threat right up there with "fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism" (this latter a euphemism
for Communism), his secretary of state is ratcheting down the bellicose rhetoric and focusing in on the fundamental military
problem of how to respond to the September 11 atrocity. "With respect to the nature of the regime in Afghanistan, that
is not uppermost in our minds right now," he said. "I'm not going to say that it has become one of the objectives
of the United States government to either remove or put in place a different regime."
FULL Article - antiwar.com
A tyrant...is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
Imperial Conservatives
by Jimmy Cantrell
On Monday September 10, 2001, a George Will column, "The Edge of a Moral Sleuth," was posted at Jewish World Review.
It is a fairly typical Will piece on literature, its writers, and its readers: praising the mid-brow, and perhaps high low-brow,
for transmitting qualities that Will somehow manages to see as 'conservative.' The Moral Sleuth in question is P. D. James,
or, as Will gushes to inform of the best-selling mystery writer, Baroness James of Holland Park.
FULL Article - LewRockwell.com
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