A Lesson from Vietnam, Part 3 by Wendy McElroy March 1, 2004 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 “Counterinsurgency” became the new American buzzword and Vietnam became the testing ground, with American leaders looking to apply its lessons elsewhere — for example, in Cuba. The Kennedy administration developed a policy which broke the containment of revolution into three stages: first, military aid programs; second, counterinsurgency by which American ...
Derivative Crimes and Federal Injustice by William L. Anderson March 1, 2004 One of the common complaints levied against criminal justice in the United States is that criminals often are acquitted because of “legal technicalities.” For example, defendants who seem to be guilty find charges dismissed because police did not properly inform them of their “Miranda Rights,” or evidence that clearly demonstrates guilt is kept from legal proceedings because of the ...
Book Review: Terrorism and Tyranny by Brigid ONeill March 1, 2004 Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the War of Evil by James Bovard (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); 448 pages; $26.95. If the Constitution could be imagined as a sort of master tailor for the people, fashioning a government that represents their general shape with each electoral try-on, the Bush administration would be bursting at the seams. In an ...
Freedom v. The Pentagon in the U.S. Supreme Court by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2004 Last week, a federal judge in Virginia, Leonie M. Brinkema (the same judge presiding in the Zacarias Moussaoui case) acquitted a man whom the feds were prosecuting for terrorism. The judge dismissed the case after the feds had presented all of their evidence in a court of a law ...
What Bush Did Wrong during the War by Sheldon Richman February 23, 2004 The brouhaha over what President Bush did or didnt do in Alabama during the war in Vietnam misses the point. Even if he put in all the time required by the Air National Guard, the real question, which nearly everyone evades, is: what obligation did a young man have with respect to that war? Every respectable politician must say (if ...
I Missed Reserve Meetings for Seven Years … and I’m Still Happy about It! by Jacob G. Hornberger February 18, 2004 Democrats are taking President Bush to task for missing a year of monthly meetings in the National Guard, which he presumably joined in an attempt to avoid being sent to fight in the Vietnam War. Apparently believing that skipping such meetings is something to be ashamed of, Bush is being circumspect about the entire episode. Nonsense! He ought to be ...
Eisenhower Was Right by Jacob G. Hornberger February 16, 2004 A small article on page A12 of the January 29 issue of the New York Times is revealing with respect to the extent of the power of the military-industrial complex in American life. The article reports that the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, told the House Armed Services Committee ...
Feeding Obesity by Scott McPherson February 13, 2004 Obesity-related medical costs for 2003 totaled $75 billion, according to research conducted by the nonprofit group RTI International and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And, their report concludes, taxpayers are footing more than half the bill for these ailments. How’s this? Because, reports the ...
Don’t Look to Politicians for Inspiration by Sheldon Richman February 11, 2004 The other day I heard someone lament that the current field of presidential contenders includes no one who can be looked to for inspiration. My first response was to wonder why anyone would look to that group for inspiration in the first place? Why indeed? I’m not sure where Americans got ...
Compilation of Articles on the Sanctions against the Iraqi People by Future of Freedom Foundation February 9, 2004 American Policy Gave Hussein Reason to Deceive by Stanley Meisler Los Angeles Times Sanctions: The Cruel and Brutal War Against the Iraqi People, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger Future of Freedom Foundation
The Government Doesn’t Belong in Television by Scott McPherson February 6, 2004 Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property — by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort. — Ayn Rand, “The Property ...
We Need Real Free Trade Now by Sheldon Richman February 4, 2004 People in parts of the developing world are becoming more free, better educated, and increasingly dexterous with modern communications, such as the Internet. As a result, they are more vigorously participating in the world economy. They are in a position to make things and do things for us ...