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The Prewar Evidence (or Lack Thereof): Saddam Hussein’s Collaboration with Terrorists and His Deterrability

May 1st, 2005 · No Comments

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Al Qaeda Was Never Iraq

October 11th, 2004 · No Comments

Conventional wisdom holds that 9/11 “changed everything.” And so, in the second presidential debate last week, George Bush maintained that “it’s a fundamental misunderstanding to say that the war on terror is only [limited to] Osama bin Laden.” Is it?
Nearly all agree that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, constituted a watershed, since never […]

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“The Man Who Speaks to You of Sacrifice”

January 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

Published on the blog of Capitalism Magazine, Dollars and Crosses, January 7, 2004, and in the Spectator (Hamilton College), January 23, 2004.
Earlier this year Saturday Night Live ran a skit on Islamic terrorists, who Osama bin Laden has just dispatched to martyr themselves for Allah—and for the 72 dark-haired virgins that await them in paradise. […]

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