Onward – Into Waziristan!

With Hillary Clinton's lead growing, Barack Obama appears to be overreaching to keep the spotlight and highlight their differences. His suggestion that sex education begin in kindergarten seems a great leap forward even for a liberal Democrat. While Barack...

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America’s Last Successful Mideast War

Americans who know any history – there may be a couple of dozen left – are all familiar with America's first Mideast war, that against Tripoli under President Jefferson. Far less well known is our war with Algiers in 1815. A nicely-written new book, The End...

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Media Blitz for War: The Big Guns of August

This week the U.S. media establishment is mainlining another fix for the Iraq war: It isn't so bad after all, American military power could turn wrong into right, chronic misleaders now serve as truth-tellers. The hit is that the war must go on. When the White House...

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Threatening the All-Volunteer Force

A collective madness has captured Washington, D.C. Actually, that's not news. Washington often has been captured by collective madness. One of the latest and strangest episodes is the belief that America must increase the size of its armed forces. All of the leading...

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Obama Would Focus Terror Fight on Afghanistan

Sen. Barack Obama, a leading candidate in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday he would make Afghanistan the focus of U.S. anti-terror efforts and unilaterally strike terrorist targets across the border in Pakistan if the government of...

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The Benchmarks That Matter

Under the headline, "A War We Just Might Win," the New York Times on Monday published an op-ed by Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution and Kenneth Pollack, both referred to as critics of the way the Bush administration has "handled" the war in Iraq. (Pollack...

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US-India Nuke Deal May Spark Asian Arms Race

UNITED NATIONS - The U.S. decision last week to proceed with a controversial civilian nuclear deal with India has triggered strong negative responses from peace activists, disarmament experts, and anti-nuclear groups. "The development of a nuclear/strategic...

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