Start with the simplest, most basic fudge. Newspapers and the TV news constantly report on various plans for the "withdrawal of American troops" from Iraq, when what's being proposed is the withdrawal of American "combat troops" or "combat brigades." This isn't a...
Updated at 12:35 a.m. EDT, July 23, 2007At least 78 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 69 Iraqis were wounded in various incidents. An attack at a meeting near Taji left a number of Sunni leaders dead or injured. No foreign casualties were reported.In Baghdad, 21...
It is now clear that the proper name for the war going on in Mesopotamia is the "Republican War." Never before has a political party so decisively asserted ownership of a foreign war. The Republicans refuse to share it with the Democrats, who, despite their...
Well, if you're worried that Bush's next war of aggression will involve nukes, there's good news and bad news. First the Good News. The Cheney Cabal has apparently concluded that their previous ridiculous argument isn't working. That Iran's nuclear programs –...
PESHAWAR - A week-long campaign of suicide bombings that killed more than 130 people across Pakistan, has seriously demoralized security personnel in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, that have become a safe haven for the Taliban and the al-Qaeda. Directed at...
It's not a bad idea to step back a few paces and remember the track record of those doing the estimating. Any discussion of a threat estimate from the vaunted U.S. intelligence "community" must begin with an acknowledgment that U.S. intelligence has often...
At the end of June, a few members of the US Congress made a discreet move to limit this country's exports of cluster bombs, a weapon that has been used around the world since the Second World War to devastating humanitarian consequences. Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat...
Updated at 12:05 a.m. EDT, July 22, 2007At least 103 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 91 more were wounded in the latest violence. A number of the dead were suspected militants who were killed in security operations in Baghdad and Diyala provinces. Also, a Task...
This is a tale about politics, influence, money and murder. It began more than 40 years ago with a bloodletting so massive that no one quite knows how many people died. Half a million? A million? Through four decades, the story of the relationship between the United...
Responding to the call of Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1095, the Christian knights of the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land. In 1099, Jerusalem was captured. As their port in Palestine, the Crusaders settled on Acre on the Mediterranean. There they...
