| Jul 11, 2011 | Peace / SecurityAt long last, America’s overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun. “The tide of war is receding,” President Barack Obama declared as he announced that 10,000 troops would come home this year and 23,000 more next year. That tide has been a deadly...
| Jun 20, 2011 | Peace / SecurityI’d like to propose a new electoral law that would require all Senate candidates to be novelists. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Sen. Jim Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction. Webb, a Virginia Democrat who has...
| May 3, 2011 | Peace / SecurityHonking cars and shouting young people made their way to the White House on Sunday night. American flags were everywhere. Revving motorcycle engines rattled downtown Washington in the middle of the night. Hurried news reporters jostled to get the best footage of the...
| Mar 14, 2011 | Peace / SecurityYet again, our leaders think they’ve got a calling to save a country in the Middle East. You would think with the bang-up job we’ve done saving Iraq and Afghanistan (not to mention Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) we could call it a day, wouldn’t you? But...
| Feb 28, 2011 | Peace / SecurityCombat’s dreadful In Iraq; Not much better When you’re back. Forget for a moment the death, devastation, deprivation, disease, displacement, and despair visited upon civilians in war zones. Let’s briefly contemplate the fate of soldiers. Ours,...
