This is a little late, but I was out on travel last week and didn’t have much time to sit and put thoughts together.  As I watched Obama trek through the Middle East and Europe last week, a remarkable thing happened.  The Iraqi Prime Minister gave the Bush Administration the greatest gift it could have [...]

I love reading blogs.  I also have a particular fondness for columnists.  The reason goes beyond a general sense of curiosity about other people, what they think, and why they behave the way they do - which is often tied to how they perceive the world and illustrated in their writing.  The reason I love [...]

A friend of mine is currently serving in Baghdad and over the last couple of weeks has been sending out some really interesting notes about life in war-torn Iraq.  Given that she is also a woman, and has to deal with the unique weirdness that can create in a Muslim nation (and, frankly, in a [...]

Ronald Reagan once described his foreign policy with regard to the Cold War in fairly simple terms - we win, they lose.  It’s a simple message that is easy to understand and makes clear our commitment to the outcome. 
To be perfectly clear, the Administration has truly bungled a great number of things.  The war in [...]

Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, said adults in a vehicle with two children in the backseat were allowed through a Baghdad checkpoint on Sunday.
The adults then parked next to a market in the Adamiya area of Baghdad, abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with [...]