War and Foreign Policy

The international socialist movement, led by Bill Clinton, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, is attempting to revive the disastrous policy of war socialism with which the current century began.

Civilization is subverted by inflation. Readers old enough to remember 13 percent inflation remember how it turned life upside down. Savers were considered to be suckers while financial profligacy was considered wise. Plans of a lifetime were gutted, employees were always angry, and businessmen found even the simplest accounting tasks to be maddeningly confusing. And yet 13 percent is hardly high by this century's egregious standards.

A history of killing innocents and ethnic cleansing contradicts the moral posturing on Kosovo.

After the US government attacked Yugoslavia, the first act of the Republicans was to take tax cuts off the table (if they were ever really on it). This symbolic gesture underscores a point: when a war is on, the work of liberty is off. For this reason, everyone concerned about freedom must oppose war.

A primer on the postwar U.S. empire, by Joseph Stromberg. 

Civilian casualties have become the norm. 

The meaningless catastrophe of 1914-18.

How the U.S. has courted conflict. 

Ideological confusion is the originating source. 

What this intervention teaches about them all.