Why This Soldier Can't Support This WarDear Sirs: Just as I heard the truth about Vietnam from veterans who were there, it is always refreshing to read an article like Justin Gordon's. Wars built on lies, deceit, and greed will always fail and so will empires fall! I...
Sixteen months ago, I published a special investigative report on a deadly U.S. military raid. On May 2, 2004, American soldiers raided a Human Rights Office in the ancient city of Babylon while a peaceful meeting was in process. American forces shot two sheiks...
While Afghanistan's parliamentary elections Sunday are expected to go relatively smoothly, the freedom with which they are being carried out is being questioned by many observers. The presence on the ballot of a number of notorious warlords and their close associates,...
DAMASCUS - Syria is almost visibly wilting under a double American onslaught. The Bush administration made it clearer than ever this week that it regards Syria as an important source of unrest in Iraq. At the same time President George Bush made hardly any attempt to...
According to Article IV of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: "All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological...
Now that Israel has evacuated from the Gaza Strip, we can forget about any serious peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has done all he is going to do. In the words of a close adviser published some months ago in Haaretz, an...
Editor's note: Today's column is based on a speech delivered at Colorado College on Sept. 15, sponsored by the Robert and Janet Manning Endowed Fund for Political Science and the political science department. Why are we in Iraq? This question, I think, puzzles most...
With all the attention being paid to the sorry aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – most of the media, especially the 24/7 cable channels, don't seem to be able to focus on more than one story at a time, but perhaps we should be grateful that Natalee Holloway has...
For the last several days, at least 6,000 US soldiers along with approximately 4,000 Iraqi soldiers (read: members of the Kurdish peshmerga and Shia Badr Army) were laying siege to the city of Tal Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq. It is estimated that 90 percent of...
Ahead of a crucial International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, next week, a group of some 50 prominent experts and former foreign-policy officials from the United States and Europe have mooted a deal with Iran on its controversial nuclear program. If Iran...
