Is the war in Iraq lost? I think the best way to judge that is to list the war s long and evolving lists of objectives, and then compare them with the situation on the ground. War supporters, on the other hand, refuse to in any way acknowledge oil as a reason to go to war, as if the fact that Iraq sits atop the world s second-largest oil supply is merely a nutty coincidence. Goal: Neutralize Iraq s WMD program Result: Mission Accomplished Prior to the war, the Bush administration claimed...

The new, clean diesels will be equipped with soot-cleaning technology and most, if not all, will meet the strictest emissions standards. And there are those who wonder if the new diesels are good and clean enough to get people to forget the diesels of the 1970s and 1980s, with their sooty emissions and, in some cases, very poor reliability. Volkswagen, which for decades has sold diesels here, plans to convert to new cleaner diesel technology starting in 2008. Meanwhile, the growing...

It seems that after recent terrorist attacks in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, many of them attributed to the influence of Osama Bin Laden, some Arab journalists, intellectuals and clerics have started to reflect upon, as one headline put it, "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims. The American Reporter Vol. It seems that after recent terrorist attacks in Russia, Iraq, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, many of them attributed to the influence of Osama Bin...