Though we arrived in Iraq speaking the language of liberation (in English only) and most Iraqis were relieved initially to have the…
[Yaroslav Trofimov of the Wall Street Journal visited the U.S. Army’s 21st Combat Support Hospital in Balad, Iraq. It handles American casualties…
In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were…
Quote of the day: “Officially, administration officials say that they had expected the drop in support for the president, and that they…
[Tom Engelhardt wrote the following introduction, slightly revised here, to Sheila JohnsonĆ¢€ā¢s essay below.] On August 26th, the Washington Post‘s David Ignatius…
Most of the war words from the Vietnam years have rushed back so fast it’s deafening. Perhaps it’s not surprising that, in…
Can’t you feel the war already slipping away, just like Saddam Hussein or Mullah Omar or Osama Bin Laden? How briefly triumphal…
Years ago, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm produced a book, The Journalist and the Murderer, in which she claimed that the essence…
Let’s start with a touch of irony. For thirty years, the men (and lone woman) now running our country have also been…
[Part 1] A pack of ravenous dogs, a nightmare, a visit from a war-haunted friend, this was how film director Ari Folman’s…
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