Just three weeks after Coalition forces entered Iraq from Kuwait, US soldiers are occupying Saddam’s headquarters in Baghdad, and the end of his evil regime is now in sight. Before turning to the future of the country, comment should be made on how the war was conducted, on both sides. The strongest argument against the…
The war in Iraq has entered its third phase. The first – the attempted decapitating strike to take out President Saddam Hussein and the top Baath leadership – was made after the US CIA reported the probable presence of Saddam in a particular military facility in Baghdad. CIA Director, George Tenet, alerted President Bush about…
Due to printing deadlines, this comment was prepared on March 11, before the UN Security Council was to vote on a resolution – jointly moved by the United States, the UK and Spain – which stated that unless Saddam Hussein fully complied with UN Security Council Resolution 1441 to disarm immediately, he would be disarmed…
As the United Nations Security Council moves towards a further resolution of the Iraq crisis, the argument against American intervention is largely based of the effectiveness of UN weapons inspectors in finding chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. It cannot be emphasised too strongly that the only reason why Saddam has offered any level of…
Reg Little agrees with the assessment of Japan by some Japan-resident economic analysts. Its banks might be languishing, but its productive economy is getting stronger by the day. Patrick Buchanan, one time US Presidential candidate, wrote for the WorldNet Daily on 27 January 2003 the following lament under the heading ‘Is the global economy about…
Old-growth forests and wildfires The appalling bushfires which have devastated Canberra, south east NSW, Tasmania and parts of Victoria over recent weeks have been aggravated by the policies of state governments which have locked up large areas of the country’s eucalypt forests from timber harvesting, and consistently failed to perform adequate fuel reduction burning, making…