By Frank Smyth, May 14, 2003, The Washington Post
Try to imagine yourself or your family living in Baghdad over the past decade, enduring tyranny, privation and wars. What if your family came from the old ruling guard but the quality of your life had only eroded under President Saddam Hussein’s regime?
By Frank Smyth, March 9, 2003, The Washington Post
How many Americans take their rights for granted? Last month an impressive number of antiwar demonstrators converged on San Francisco and New York in chartered buses. Similarly, more than 30 years ago, various protest organizers chartered buses to bring anti-Vietnam-War…
By Frank Smyth, November 10, 2002, The Washington Post
Any egomaniac with an audience can do a live stand-up in an alleged combat zone these days, but Jon Lee Anderson is a war correspondent’s journalist. On Sept. 11, while most Americans were still either looking up…
By Frank Smyth, December 20, 1998, The Washington Post
Who doesn’t want a new government in Baghdad? The Clinton administration’s sustained airstrikes against Iraq will cripple some of Saddam Hussein’s military capabilities, but few believe that unilateral bombing will, by itself, compel lasting change in Iraq.
By Frank Smyth, May 12, 1996, The Washington Post
They met on the set of NBC’s “Today” show. Jeanne Boylan, the forensic artist who drew the Unabomber…
By Frank Smyth, July 9, 1995, The Washington Post
An artful conspiracy theorist can easily cultivate believers. One day history will add to the conspiratorial log the name of Neal Knox, one of America’s more widely…
By Frank Smyth, May 22, 1994, The Washington Post
The little-noticed role of South African-made arms in the catastrophe of Rwanda presents Nelson Mandela with…






















