The most important issue facing America is not even being debated by the presidential candidates. With the exception of Ron Paul, all of the candidates are acting on the assumption that America's interventionist foreign policy should continue. They only differ on the...
Updated at 11:40 p.m. EDT, Aug. 12, 2007Although violence remains relatively light, U.S. forces took a heavy hit on Saturday; five American servicemembers were killed and four wounded. At least 57 Iraqis were killed and 37 more wounded during the latest incidents....
Dec. 7, 1941, and Aug. 6, 1945 – and what happened on those dates – are fading from the world's memory as the generations who experienced those events die off. Those two dates mark the beginning and the beginning of the end of World War II in the Pacific....
What appears to be going on regarding Iran is a struggle within the administration over how to approach the Shi'ite mullah-dominated country that looms so large not only in the American imagination but as a regional power that is bound to have considerable influence...
Americans increasingly realize – despite a dearth of reporting by the mainstream media – that there is a widening gulf between reality and President Bush’s characterization of it. And what’s scary is that Bush may actually believe his...
Updated at 11:10 p.m. EDT, Aug. 11, 2007Travel returned to normal today in Baghdad as a three-day vehicle curfew was lifted this morning. At least 81 Iraqis were killed and 34 were wounded during the latest incidents. Also, a Task Force Lightning soldier was killed in...
The United States has rarely lost any conventional military battle since at least 1950. Nor has it, at the same time, ever won a war. It has successfully overthrown governments through interventions or subversion but the political results of all its efforts – as...
Korea has joined the first rank of nations. You wouldn't know it, however, listening to the Korean public's reaction to the kidnapping and murder of Korean aid workers in Afghanistan. It is America's fault. Christian missionaries long have been active in...
In hailing what he has called an "almost breathtaking" turnaround in Anbar Province that has weakened al-Qaeda as a triumph for his new military strategy in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus has put a favorable spin on a development which actually challenges the...
Updated at 6:15 p.m EDT, Aug. 10, 2007At least 58 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 66 more were wounded as violence returns to the country. A car curfew is still in effect until tomorrow in Baghdad. Also, a U.S. helicopter had to make an emergency landing after...
