In a recent op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times, Andrew J. Bacevich, West Point graduate and professor of international relations at Boston University, takes up the question that will haunt us for some time to come: Who lost Iraq? As he goes through the likely...
Updated at 11:09 p.m. EST, Nov. 13, 2006 After a violently active Sunday, Monday followed suit with at least 109 Iraqis killed and 47 more injured. American officials added the news that four American soldiers were killed and another four injured in separate events....
Updated at 11:58 a.m. EST, Nov. 13, 2006 Sunday’s casualty tally quickly rose to 217 Iraqis either killed or found dead and another 149 Iraqis injured after a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad and the discovery of 75 corpses in Baqouba. Foreign servicemembers were...
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, an armistice was signed that ended World War I, the first great bloodletting of the twentieth century, "the war to end all wars" that proved but the prelude to World War II. Now, here we are at the 11th day...
Since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, US President George W Bush has campaigned in one presidential contest (04) and two Congressional races (02 and 2004) as a victorious "War President." Mr. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress chalked up one...
Democratic majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, will not necessarily mean major changes for the war in Iraq, analysts say. That's primarily because it is the president, and not...
Several weeks ago, a gaggle of prominent neo-crazies, including Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, David Frum, Kenneth Adelman and Michael Rubin, railed on the record in Vanity Fair magazine against the incompetent implementation by President Bush and Secretary of Defense...
A glance at Donald Rumsfeld's biography will tell you that he is: (1) ambitious; (2) bright; (3) competent; and (4) incredibly experienced in both the private sector and the public sector. So how did the 74-year-old secretary of defense become the bad guy of the Bush...
Well, the election results Tuesday were almost universally interpreted as a referendum on the Iraq war, and Bush and the neocons got their heads handed to them. And as dramatic as the Democrats winning control of both houses of Congress was, the magnitude of the...
Updated at 11:05 p.m EST, Nov. 11, 2006 As the Veteran’s Day holiday is observed in the United States, the War in Iraq continues without a pause. Two Coalition soldiers were killed and another two injured. A translator for U.S forces was kidnapped, and at least...
