Bin Laden Propagandist Gets First-Rate Appeal
Prisoner Isolation, From Jefferson Davis to Bradley Manning
One hundred and forty-five years later, the room was almost pleasant. There was an embrasure with an open window at the extreme end of the casemate, looking out over the moat and the pretty buildings of Fort Monroe beyond. The sun played over the water and sent...
Iraqi Protests Make Washington Squirm
After news that a “Day of Rage” in Iraq had not only drawn tens of thousands of Iraqis demanding jobs, clean water and electricity, but the wrath of security forces—at least 29 dead, a hundred journalists rounded up and beaten and police firing into crowds—one...
Sen. Jim Webb Loses Steam
Remember as far back as 2006, if you can (in Washington politics, that is like a quarter century). By December 2006, over 800 U.S. soldiers and marines in Iraq are dead for that year alone, while a civil war between Sunni and Shia plays out in the streets like a daily...
Don’t We Deserve Real War News?
Old Guard Moving Aside at CPAC
“The United States has the reverse Midas touch – everything we touch turns to crap.” - Military historian Bill Lind, talking on American foreign policy to a standing-room-only crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday. Something unusual has...
