It is fitting that President Obama announced his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan on the 30th anniversary of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev’s decision to do the same. The two events are joined at the hip. In 1978, the Afghan army overthrew the existing government and made the head of the country’s Communist Party president. … Read More
Reaping What We Have Sown by David Morris Originally published in Alternet, May 4, 2004 Who is behind global Islamic terrorism? A new book by Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, makes a persuasive case that the guilty party is the United States. For Mamdani, director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, the … Read More
Faulty Intelligence My Eye by David Morris Originally published in AlterNet, February 3, 2004 David Kay was the perfect choice to head up Bush’s search for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He was in Iraq in 1991 with the UN inspection team. He was one of the most visible and vocal believers in the existence of … Read More
A Tale of Two Septembers by David Morris Originally published on Alternet, September 5, 2003 September 11th, 2003 marks the second anniversary of the aerial attack by terrorists that killed 2,700 people and profoundly changed American society. September 11th also marks the anniversary, in this case the thirtieth, of the aerial attack by terrorists that led … Read More
Kissinger and Bin Laden Offer a Dangerous Symmetry By David Morris Originally Published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, December 5, 2002 President Bush believes Henry Kissinger is the best choice to head up an investigation into the adequacy of our defenses against Al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden. He may be right. After all, as the schoolyard … Read More
