by Gil Friend | Oct 11, 2002 | Politics
NY Times: “Former President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his ‘untiring effort’ to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights.” BBC report. [Scripting News] I can’t think...
by Gil Friend | Sep 1, 2002 | Politics
“Morally obtuse and politically naive” Neither Friedman nor Brzezinski are opposing an attack on Iraq (though Chris Matthews, surprisingly, is), but they raise serious concerns about how th US seems to be going about it. Iraq Without Saddam. Is Iraq the...
by Gil Friend | Aug 28, 2002 | Politics
Dennis Prager with a rather different take on the NC University ‘understanding islam’ flap than Tom Friedman’s. So, the intent of the University of North Carolina assigned summer reading is not at all what it purports to be. It was not chosen to help...
by Gil Friend | Aug 28, 2002 | Politics
I’m With Dick! Let’s Make War!. Let’s do “regime change” in a kingdom that gives medieval a bad name. By Maureen Dowd. [New York Times: Opinion]
by Gil Friend | Aug 27, 2002 | Politics
Cuckoo in Carolina. The ruckus being raised by conservative Christians over the University of North Carolina’s decision to ask incoming students to read a book about the Koran exhibits such profound lack of understanding of what America is about. By Thomas L....
by Gil Friend | Aug 27, 2002 | Politics
CNN URGES U.S. NOT TO INVADE IRAQ UNTIL SWEEPS Pre-sweeps regime change would be ‘disastrous,’ TV News giant says. Funny! I almost believed it — THAT’S a helluva testament to what’s “realistic” these days — til I got to...
