Blame Wilson

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 24, 2005 '[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power...

The Teetering Empire

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 06, 2005 Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, and the guest on my March 26 radio show [stream] [download mp3], spent decades as what he now calls a 'spear-carrier for empire.' According to Mr. Johnson, we have '[t]o a certain extent ”¦ been at war since 1940.' When the U.S. government told him that our military dominance of much of the planet...

Who’s Afraid of John Bolton?

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com April 02, 2005 George Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has provoked a storm of controversy, setting off cries of 'loose cannon!' and 'unilateralism!' from the more internationalist of the American interventionists. Currently undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, Bolton is a figure whose study provides a telling illustration of the current debate within the foreign policy...