09.08.07 - 11:20am
In many ways, international law and the international environment has not yet progressed much beyond the law of the jungle. However, as the examples of Pinochet and Kissinger demonstrate, once you are no longer the 900 pound gorilla in your own little jungle clearing you might one day find yourself in danger.
08.23.07 - 08:53am
For a man who has spent his entire presidency asserting that black is white and up is down while everything around him turns to disaster, no misrepresentation or twisting of the facts is a fabrication too far. And yesterday, George W Bush finally went for broke. After spending years denying, avoiding and scoffing at any comparison between Iraq and Vietnam, he stood up in front of American war veterans, with that smirk on his face, and fully embraced it.
