Updated at 12:08 a.m. EDT, June 1, 2007The U.S. military reported four more GI deaths today. At least 124 American servicemembers died during May, making it the third deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion. Also, 82 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 88...
Euripides said that "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." First there was the madness of cornering Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora and letting him go. Then there was the launching of the meaningless Global War on Terror, which turned most of the world...
Of the seven wonders of the ancient Mediterranean world, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes, four were destroyed by earthquakes, two by fire. Only the Great Pyramid of Giza today remains. We no longer know who built those fabled...
Justin is traveling, his column will be back on Monday. It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS Liberty – a large, armorless, refitted freighter that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean at the outset of the Six Day War – was attacked by...
Has Congress given George Bush a green light to attack Iran? For he is surely behaving as though it is his call alone. And evidence is mounting that we are on a collision course for war: Iran has detained several Iranian-Americans, seemingly in retaliation for our...
BAGHDAD - A massacre by members of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army on Sunni worshippers earlier this month sparked clashes between patrolling Kurdish militiamen in southwest Baghdad and the Mahdi army, raising tensions that fighting between the groups could...
ARBIL - More than four months after the launch of the U.S. government's new Iraq strategy aimed at curbing violence in this war-torn country, the situation here shows no clear signs of improvement. Indeed, a recent report by a British think-tank warns [.pdf] that Iraq...
Updated at 12:55 p.m. EDT, May 31, 2007At least 65 Iraqis were killed today and 97 wounded in violent attacks, including the deaths of two Iraqi journalists. Also, the U.S. military reported that an American soldier was killed in a Baghdad IED attack on Saturday. A...
Rep. Jimmy Duncan (R-Tenn.) is considered one of the most conservative members of Congress – the American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime score of 88 out of 100. But that doesn't mean Duncan always goes along with the Bush administration. In fact, when it...
The Bush administration has blown chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, to win wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now to have any chance of maintaining a stable nuclear-armed Pakistan. Like U.S. policy toward the shah's Iran in the 1960s and 1970s, the Bush...
