Saving England Wasn’t Worth It

By Scott Horton Antiwar.com June 30, 2007 Editor’s note: Antiwar.com Assistant Editor Scott Horton wrote the following essay for the Oxford Forum, whose editors asked him to contribute a piece on the Anglo-American role in international conflict. Unfortunately,...

Please Leave: An interview with Sami Rasouli

by Scott Horton Interview conducted April 1, 2007. Listen to the interview here. I have on the line Sami Rasouli. He is an Iraqi, who was an ex-patriot. He lived in the United States for I believe about 30 years — a very successful restauranteur from Minneapolis,...

Is there even a terrorist threat to this country at all?

And is that a strange question to be found in the pages of Foreign Affairs? Is There Still a Terrorist Threat? By John Mueller From Foreign Affairs, September/October 2006 Summary: Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has...

State of the State 2006

Below is the text of the boy emperor’s speech. In italics are the refutations and juvenile commentary I added. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, members of the Supreme Court and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests and fellow citizens:...

Poisonous Misinterpretations

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 24, 2005 ‘This is not an isolated criminal act we are dealing with, it is an extreme and evil ideology whose roots lie in a perverted and poisonous misinterpretation of the religion of Islam.’ — Tony Blair Why do they hate...

War Is the Health of What?

by Scott Horton Antiwar.com July 15, 2005 Paul Craig Roberts is not a leftist, a liberal, a socialist, or a Democrat. He never has been. Roberts was the assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Ronald Reagan. (We all know that the one-world socialist types in the...

How To Win The War On Terrorism: Call It Off

By Scott Horton This is one I wrote back in the summer of 2005 for the blog at Ameripundit.com: If we pretend, and accept the premise that the War on Terror is actually about stopping jihadists who target American citizens, then we might have to conclude that our...