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May 10, 2004 Issue


Fallujah: High Tide of Empire?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
America is not cut out to rule the world.

Neocon Artists
By Taki
Those who plotted the war aren’t the ones doing the dying.


The Best of Bad Choices
By Christopher Layne
Given the improbability of internationalizing the occupation and the implausibility of bringing in more troops, America should set a timetable for leaving Iraq—and follow it.


Desperately Seeking a Strongman
By James Pinkerton
Iraq needs someone who can establish central authority, restore a monopoly on violence, and eliminate the bin Ladenites. We know just the guy.

International (Not So) Greatness
By Leon Hadar
The administration’s Greater Middle East initiative is an exercise in self-delusion.

Democracy Explodes Over Iraq
By Fred Reed
Few survivors expected

Hate Hoax
By Steve Sailer
Claremont’s hate-crime fraud

No Color, No Crime
By Ryan M. Horn
Cornell doesn’t call it “hate” when black attackers beat a white student.


Fourteen Days:
Taxes and Turncoats; Weekly Standard Says More Wars Next Term; Driving Illegal Immigration; Castenada vs. Huntington

Deep Background: The Mexican Exception; Heroin, Our GIs’ Afghan Companion


Tarantino’s Brain
By Steve Sailer
Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill: Vol. 2”

Blaming Whitey
By Elizabeth Wright
The End of Blackness
by Debra J. Dickerson

“Saint” Alger’s Botox
By R.J. Stove
Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars
by G. Edward White

Can’t Get No Satisfaction
By Kara Hopkins
The Progress Paradox
by Gregg Easterbrook

© 2004 The American Conservative.