Updated at 12:20 a.m. EDT, July 28, 2008At least 18 Iraqis were killed and 21 more were wounded in the latest round of attacks. No Coalition deaths were reported. Meanwhile, an expected million pilgrims are descending on the capital for a religious observance that...
Updated at 11:36 p.m. EDT, July 26, 2008As pilgrims descend on Baghdad for a religious observance that ends on Tuesday, at least seven Iraqis were killed and 19 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Security forces are on high alert...
Last month, Reps. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and Mike Pence (R-IN) introduced a new resolution to Congress, demanding the President to initiate an international effort to impose a land, sea, and air blockade on Iran to prevent it from importing refined petroleum products...
Hopefully, the next president, whoever he is, will have sense enough to realize that an anti-missile site in Eastern Europe is not worth rekindling the Cold War with Russia. Though the press pays little attention to it, the Bush administration has already practically...
The media, egged on by John McCain and his campaign, are going to twist the arm of Barack Obama until he cries "uncle" and admits the U.S. troop "surge" has worked in Iraq. So far, Obama has not cracked under the pressure and, for reasons of...
Well, in times like these, you probably ought to read Pat Buchanan's latest book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. You certainly ought to check out Buchanan's interview about that book on Antiwar Radio....
When Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani begins his first official visit here at the White House Monday, the welcome is likely to be a little warmer than he might wish. Pakistan, which is beset by both a thriving Taliban insurgency and its worst inflation in...
One thing I hate about the Fourth Estate, and our culture in general, is the very short attention span that traps us in the present. No one remembers anything. Everything is now, now, now. There is no follow-up: stories aren't developed so much as they are announced,...
"On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within its borders: the official establishment of military government in the areas where most of the...
As any military historian will testify, among the most difficult of maneuvers is the strategic retreat. Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Lee's retreat to Appomattox and MacArthur's retreat from the Yalu come to mind. The British Empire abandoned India in 1947...
