The more I read history, the more I'm convinced that the United States, far from being God's appointed beacon for all mankind, was always a big talking, poor performing country in which the massive and willful stupidity of the majority engendered a moral rot incapable of withstanding manipulation and seduction...

Take a look at the September/October 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs and you'll find a fascinating article by James Dobbins: "Who Lost Iraq? Lessons From the Debacle." An Assistant Secretary of State under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Dobbins candidly admits that Bush's invasion of Iraq qualifies as...

Has the United States ever had to endure a president who lies as often as George W. Bush? He repeatedly lied to the American people in order to invade Iraq. Now he is lying about Iran. Who is going to hold him accountable?

In Sept. '02, Bush invoked a nonexistent...

Americans "were free to say what they think,
because they did not think what they were not free
to say."

Leo Szilard

"Had Germany used atomic bombs on two allied cities
[during World War II], those responsible would have been
'sentenced' to...

Judging by how the overwhelming majority of Americans simply dismisses President Bush whenever he seizes the podium to spout more nonsense and lies about his illegal, immoral invasion and incompetent occupation of Iraq -- arguably the worst foreign policy crime and blunder in U. S. history -- virtually every image...

On August 2, 2000, while accepting the Republican Party's nomination as vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney told the U.S. military, "help is on the way." Cheney used the occasion to savage the Clinton administration: "Rarely has so much been demanded of our armed forces and so little...

Having watched our pathetic president's July 12th news conference concerning the "Initial Benchmark Assessment Report," I felt the urge to applaud Helen Thomas for verbally assaulting George W. Bush for the war criminal and mass murderer that he is. God bless her for asking: "Mr. President, you started this war,...

(Note: Part One of "The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation examined the criminality and immorality underlying the Bush/Cheney regime's invasion of Iraq (see http://www.walter-c-uhler.com/Reviews/criminal.html ). Part Two, examined the disasters that could have been avoided, except for the gross incompetence with which the invasion...

Part One of "The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation" examined the criminality and immorality underlying the Bush/Cheney regime's invasion of Iraq. Part Two, below, examines the disasters that could have been avoided, except for the gross incompetence with which the invasion was conducted. Part...

Part One: Criminality and Immorality

I. Criminality

According to Article VI of our U.S. Constitution, treaties entered into by the United States become the "Supreme Law of the Land." At the urging of President Harry Truman, on July 28, 1945, the U.S. Senate ratified the United Nations Charter by a...

When it comes to the rank incompetence of our pathetic president, George W. Bush, and his reprobate Veep, I'm often reminded of Samuel Johnson's observation about "a foolish thing well done." Except, the only "foolish thing well done" by the Bush administration was Bush's election and reelection as president --...

Forty years ago today (or yesterday, depending when this article was posted), on June 5, 1967, Israel launched a devastating preemptive strike on its Arab neighbors that marked the beginning of the Six-Day War. The war's outcome proved to be a significant turning point in the history of the Middle...

Absurdity No. 1:

On May 24, 2007, just a day after returning from Russia, I received my fifth consecutive invitation to the annual President's Dinner, held in Washington, D.C. Signed by Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican Leader, and John "crybaby" Boehner, the House Republican Leader, the form letter invitation opened...

Paper to be presented at the 16th Annual Russian-American Seminar, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 15-22, 2007

Speaking to the United States Senate Appropriations subcommittee last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice commented upon the "difficult period" afflicting recent Russian-American relations. She asserted, "the Russians, I think,...

George Kennan's 15 May 1953 speech at the University of Notre Dame was delivered at a time, when the right-wing anti-communist hysteria, inflamed by Senator Joseph McCarthy, was at its peak. Yet, it courageously exposed the demagogic McCarthyites for the ignorant, self-righteous, fear-mongering extremists they were. Thus, one can hardly...

Yale University Press has published a small gem of a book, John Lukacs's George Kennan: A Study in Character. Reading it was both a delight and surprise.

First, the book was delightful, because Mr. Kennan (whom I've long admired) represented the United States at its best. As Mr. Lukacs concludes:...

Linda: He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a...

On April 2, 2007, Vice President Dick Cheney chastised Congressional Democrats for attaching "time limits, deadlines, or other arbitrary measures" on emergency funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he might have revealed far more than he intended, perhaps a Freudian slip, when he observed: "You cannot win...

Judging by his article, "Russia's culturati a pale imitation of worthies of 'Utopia,'" Carlin Romano and the editors of Philadelphia Inquirer have conspired to subject their readers to an infantile April Fools' Day joke. Thus, readers of the April 1, 2007 issue of the "Inky" might be forgiven, if, after...

One day after posting Part One of this article, which focused on seven pages found in Ismael Hossein-Zadeh's recent book, The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism, I ran across Chris Floyd's article: "Doomsday Book: Bush Literary Lunch Foretells Horrors Ahead," which linked to Glenn Greenwald's article at salon.com ("