Updated at 11:50 p.m. EDT, April 9, 2008On the fifth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad to U.S. forces, Iraqi authorities placed curfews on the capital and other cities in order to prevent anti-American activities and protests. At least 49 Iraqis were killed and...
Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shi'ite cleric who emerged triumphant from an Iraqi government assault on his Mahdi Army militia in Basra (and Baghdad) has called for a "million-strong" march in Baghdad tomorrow to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq....
My father was a young man during the Vietnam War. Health problems exempted him from conscription, but he had several friends who fought in the war. I have several friends and acquaintances of long standing who are or were in the military, some of whom have been to...
Was WWII Really 'The Good War'? Pat Buchanan says: "[T]he destruction of the Jews of Europe was a consequence of this war, not a cause." Perhaps it was not a "cause" of the war, but neither was it a consequence. The murder of the Jews was uppermost in the minds of the...
The considerable buzz in conservative circles about Barack Obama, best exemplified by Andrew Bacevich's article "The Case for Obama" in The American Conservative, has largely focused on his potential as the only candidate who might actually end the war in...
A key objective of the congressional testimony by Gen. David Petraeus this week will be to defend the George W. Bush administration's strategic political line that it is fighting an Iranian "proxy war" in Iraq. Based on preliminary indications of his spin on...
Last month, the House amended the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to expand the government's ability to monitor our private communications. This measure, if it becomes law, will result in more warrantless government surveillance of innocent American...
Despite a reduction in violence over the past 15 months, "the U.S. risks getting bogged down in Iraq for a long time to come, with serious consequences for its interests in other parts of the world," according to a new assessment by the same group of experts who...
TEHRAN - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can expect considerable opposition in the newly elected parliament – set to be installed on May 27 – that has a considerable number of representatives from rival hard-liners, conservatives, and a stronger reformist...
"There sure as hell is a draft going on," the passenger sitting next to me said grudgingly as the flight attendant handed him a ginger ale on our way into Los Angeles last week. "I signed up to be in the Navy, not the damn Army." It will be his...
