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The Odyssey Home
SPEAK, MEMORY— Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights. Speak Of all the cities he saw, the minds he...
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The Engines of America’s Endless Wars
At the time of his death, I was twelve years younger than the first casualty of the Iraq War. It was March 21st, 2003, and I was thirteen years old. He was Brian Matthew Kennedy, a Corporal from my...
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Reader Response: My Thoughts on ‘Our Endless Wars’
Reader Kevin Barrett recently commented to dispute my last blog post about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying, A very interesting post, but I disagree with the premise – that wars are the fault...
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The Greatest Debate of All Time: Hitchens Versus Galloway on Iraq
It’s often tricky to identify “the best” of a certain category. But with debates, ironically enough, the question is, at least to my mind, settled. There are a lot of nominees for second place:...
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Gore Vidal’s Hilarious, Prophetic Rebuttal to Bush’s Second Inaugural
President George W. Bush, speaking at his second inauguration: “America will not impose our own style of government on the unwilling. Our goal, instead, is to help others find their own voice, attain...
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A Government’s Contempt for Law Is Contagious
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by...
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Original Sin and Future War
Questioner: I have a bumper stick on my car that says, “War is not the answer”… But of course the question is, if war is not the answer, what is the answer? Andrew Bacevich: I’m actually a...
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Dexter Filkins Tells a Tragic, Symbolic Anecdote about the Fate of Iraq
“In places like Dora, Gazaliya and Sadiya, the insurgents had taken to killing the garbagemen. It seemed strange at first that they would do that, kill a man who collected the trash. Then they started...
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“Does It Matter?” by Siegfried Sassoon
Does it matter? — losing your legs? For people will always be kind, And you need not show that you mind When the others come in after hunting To gobble their muffins and eggs. Does it matter? — losing...
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“It’s a Quagmire”
“Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the...
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Martin Amis on Terror, Iraq, and His Father
Jon Snow: Look at the war on Iraq – do you not think that would stir an urge in the Arab world when they see women and children ravaged by what we Westerners are doing? Martin Amis: I’ve said in print...
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Killing Saddam, Resurrecting al-Qaeda
Harry Kreisler: From the start, Jihadists came to believe that it would be ideal if American troops would be drawn back into the middle east. The idea was that if they attacked [on 9/11] and we came...
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The Odyssey Home
SPEAK, MEMORY— Of the cunning hero, The wanderer, blown off course time and again After he plundered Troy’s sacred heights. Speak Of all the cities he saw, the minds he grasped, The suffering deep in...
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