2004 American military scandal during the Iraq War
Our president, who had a brief flirtation with decisiveness and backbone, has now reverted to his natural nanny-state state. He thinks the photos of a dead and perforated Bin Laden…
I expect to utter the quote in that headline quite a bit in the next four years, as the Obama administration draws praise ? or at least escapes criticism ?…
There were no huge surprises from the 80th Annual Academy Awards, although I did not expect Tilda Swinton to win the Oscar for best supporting actress. Well deserved acting Oscars…
The lead story in today’s print version of The News & Observer wasn’t written by an N&O reporter or the Associated Press, nor any other supposedly impartial wire service. It…
This one sentence sums up the United Nations’ approach to peacekeeping, charity, and other niceties: If you’re going to rape prepubescent girls, make sure you’re wearing a blue helmet. That…
Word is circulating in the Arab world that Nick Berg was not really beheaded (which would violate Islamic law), but the alleged video depicting his murder was “American propaganda to…
It is obvious that the president did not get the memo and is thus far afield from the accepted script. I mean the interim president of Iraq, Ghazi Marshal Ajil…
The latest Gallup survey of public attitudes about major American institutions is out, and the results are instructive. There?s good news and bad in the poll, from my perspective, but…
News from Delaware: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., a key Democratic supporter of President Bush’s decision to wage war on Iraq, said the president must demonstrate that he understands the “nature…
Paul, I’d like to add a concern to yours and Noonan’s comments. What bothers me most about the photos I’ve seen is the gratuitous, malicious cruelty. I don’t see it…
Peggy Noonan calls American abuse of Iraqi prisoners “disheartening” and “a humiliation for America,” and rightly so, but I disagree with some of her ponderings. “It forces us to think…