Hillary Clinton has gone to significant lengths to cultivate relationships with U.S. military leaders.
Hillary said she’d sign on with the Democratic plan to withdraw all combat trrops from Iraq by the end of the summer of 2008, but also said that she would keep some troops there “to deal with al Qaeda.” Read More
You know the drill. Every year it starts a little bit early: the press releases, the articles, the low level buzz—mostly amid the publicists who write the press releases and the reporters who dutifully recap them. Yes, it’s Time‘s ‘Person of Year’ time again, and if the consensus mongers are to be believed, this Read More
Who’s winning the battle of the front pages?
Paper A greets the 2,000th American military death in Iraq with a somber black memorial background and the word “tragic.” Paper B presents a waving flag, the clear blue skies of freedom and an inspiring quote from Our President.
Quiz: Which one of these papers fumed Read More
Among the most durable stereotypes of American political culture is that military officers secretly yearn for authoritarian rule and blind brutality, especially if they happen to be from the South, while civilian officials and intellectuals supposedly cherish our constitutional order.
Those old liberal clichés have been proven false in the struggle to curtail the lawless Read More
Among the most durable stereotypes of American political culture is that military officers secretly yearn for authoritarian rule and blind brutality, especially if they happen to be from the South, while civilian officials and intellectuals supposedly cherish our constitutional order.
Those old liberal clichés have been proven false in the struggle to curtail the lawless Read More
Newspapers and TV outlets were condemned for showing the bodies of four Americans identified as “contractors” who were brutally killed, burned and then gleefully put on display in Iraq. As if Americans were not capable of acting exactly as the Iraqis did. Individuals and peoples remember what they want to remember and forget what they Read More
In July of 2000, yachtsmen who were deep-sea fishing in the Atlantic Ocean might have been surprised to see a Canadian transport ship, loaded with soldiers, tanks, armored personnel carriers, more than 300 containers of ammunition and other valuable military equipment, steaming in lazy circles, going nowhere. The Katie, the ship in question, wasn’t owned Read More
MOSUL, Iraq-”She’s lucky I didn’t shoot her,” said Sgt. First Class James Johnson, 43, of Queens, N.Y., via England and Jamaica. “We will shoot a woman in a heartbeat.”
Sergeant Johnson was recalling an encounter with a covered Muslim woman at a U.S. military checkpoint. Asked to be checked for weapons under her robes, the Read More
“History does not exist here anymore,” declared an official of the Basra Museum of Natural History, which was looted and burned last week. He’s right in more than one sense: History has played only a minor role in the drama of Iraqi liberation. I’m not speaking of the coalition’s military campaign, or of the attempt Read More
During these last days, or perhaps hours, of our preparation for war with whatever Iraqi forces elect to fight for Saddam Hussein, there is a vital battle of priorities still being waged within the American defense establishment. It is not a battle over the usual Pentagon concerns-bureaucratic turf and budgetary appropriations-but rather over something that Read More
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