New American presidents traditionally get what journalists and pundits call a honeymoon. There's a period sometimes lasting up to 18 months when whatever goodwill remains from the pomp and circumstance of installing a president evokes deep patriotic feelings, creating...
Updated at 6:55 p.m. EST, Nov. 11, 2008At least 7 Iraqis were killed and another 51 were wounded, mostly during bombing attacks in Baghdad and Mosul. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, the fate of a U.S.-Iraqi agreement may rest on support from a political...
President-elect Barack Obama should make the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility a top priority when he takes office Jan. 20, U.S. and international human rights groups said Monday. They are also calling for the abolition of the military commissions that...
While much of the world and many of his U.S. supporters are expecting a sharp break with his predecessor's foreign policy after President-elect Barack Obama takes office Jan. 20, they may be surprised by the degree of continuity between the two administrations. That...
Every Veterans Day, I try to do something special to remember or honor a veteran. I don't like the standard flag-waving event that this day has become for many people. In many Veterans Day speeches, the speakers talk about the hundreds of thousands of American...
Forget the Honeymoon Dear Justin, It's too early to panic. Look what we just avoided: Krauthammer and the whole Giuliani gangs of neocons. The good news: 1. Obama has been elected largely by the antiwar people, therefore any war in Iran or Syria is, I believe, off the...
Updated at 6:52 p.m. EST, Nov. 10. 2008A complex bomb attack in Baghdad left scores dead or injured in the capital and almost overshadowed violence elsewhere. At least 45 Iraqis were killed and 101 more were wounded across the country. Another vicious attack occurred...
KIGALI - War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but also the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire. When fighting takes place...
The case of Binyam Mohamed just gets weirder and weirder. For the last six months, the British resident and Guantánamo prisoner, who was seized in Pakistan in April 2002, has been engaged in a transatlantic struggle to secure evidence relating to his...
The task ahead of President-elect Barack Obama is not to meet all of the expectations of his supporters or to solve every problem facing the United States right now, but to simply practice what he has preached. For many of his supporters, Obama represents a symbolic...
