Apparently, the Pentagon's recruitment goals are not being reached, contrary to assurances that there has not been a marked decline in new sign-ups. Looking further afield has become the current recruitment policy for Uncle Sam Wants You, Eh? "As Bush was ramping up...
Plame Resurfaces
Just when I was beginning to believe that the outing of an undercover CIA agent for political revenge was going to slip from memory without any heads rolling, apparently there are some who haven't forgotten and are putting the pressure back onto the Administration....
Lest We Forget…
Has it really been more than two years since the anthrax attacks -- and still no one arrested? Hard to believe! We've managed to bag Saddam, who never did anything to us. But Ashcroft, Ridge and untold billions of tax dollars later there are still no arrests, still no...
Egypt Reacts to a Dictator’s Fall
The mixed feelings on the Arab street to the capture of Saddam Hussein is the subject of this article by Kamel Labidi, a journalist in Cairo who wrote his observations for THE DAILY STAR, the English language newspaper of Lebanon. Egypt and its varied reactions to a...
A Posthumous Christmas
It is especially at the holidays that the casualties of war, all wars, lean so heavily on our hearts. After my father died in Korea, I don't think we ever had a genuinely happy Christmas again. Sure the tree was decorated, the gifts tumbled in heaps under it, cookies...
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
JUAN COLE, in his commentary today, Al-Hakim to ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Saddam must be Tried in Iraq included this veritable gem at the very end: ...Bremer is reportedly worried that the IGC is not moving toward those elections fast enough to meet the July 1 deadline for...
THE GENERAL’S CARPET
A Soldier's Letter from Iraq Spec-4 Marshall L. Edgerton was 27 years old. He was from Rocky Face, Georgia. He was assigned to [deleted], 82nd Airborne Division. We are based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Marshall was killed December 11th when he was escorting a delivery truck...
