Farewell. It’s Time to Move On

To quote Mr. Dickens, they were the best of times and the worst of times. This is Galloway writing "-30-" and a farewell to this weekly column after almost seven years and wrapping up half a century in the newspaper business. Oh, I will still write an...

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Time to Get Out of Iraq

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has suggested that he might speed up our withdrawal from Iraq by pulling out an additional brigade combat team by year's end. Good idea! How about pulling out FIVE more brigades by then? It is an idea whose time clearly has arrived, as...

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The First Casualty

[Foreword to the book So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits – and the President – Failed on Iraq by Greg Mitchell (Union Square Press, March 2008).] In war truth is too often the first casualty, and it is not just a president or a secretary of...

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