We are more than 225 religious leaders from a wide diversity of backgrounds. Notable within our ranks are many Latino and Latina leaders who are more concerned to oppose torture than to applaud appointing a Hispanic to the cabinet. Whatever our backgrounds, we all...
While the world's attention has been focused for the past 10 days on the catastrophic tsunamis in South Asia and the subsequent relief efforts, the situation for the United States and its dwindling number of allies in Iraq appears to have worsened. The administration...
As 2005 proceeds, I predict that the mess in Iraq will depart from American consciousness, overtaken by the media's fixation on Michael Jackson. The lack of knowledge about events on the ground in Iraq is stunning. With no end yet in sight, let's ponder the...
A nation's foreign policy is bankrupt, Walter Lippmann wrote, when its strategic assets, its arms and alliances, are insufficient to cover its liabilities – i.e., its commitments to defend critical territory and vital interests. Japan's strike on Pearl Harbor and...
Led by a dozen retired generals and admirals, including a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, human rights groups are urging the U.S. Senate to carefully scrutinize the role of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in devising detention and interrogation...
USA Today reports the Bush administration will ask for $100 billion to cover the latest "off-budget" costs of the Iraq war, and notes the response of Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.): "I hope they ask for something big. Look, this is a test of wills. We need to show...
CAIRO - After a year of tough talk from U.S. policymakers about the inevitable "democratization" of the Middle East, Washington appears to be backtracking, along with its Arab friends in the region. With the reelection of U.S. President George W. Bush and his hardline...
BANGKOK - While volunteers, relief workers and families are busy collecting and searching for bodies in Indonesia's tsunami-stricken Aceh province, Indonesian soldiers are continuing their offensive against separatist rebels, critics say. This, say international human...
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There has been a lot of talk about Humvees lately, ever since an American soldier asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why soldiers were going to war in unarmored vehicles. "We're digging pieces of rusted scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass that's already...
