War

Rep. Keith Ellison and six other members of Congress are sending a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging immediate action to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It asks for openings on the Gaza border for humanitarian supplies, the transport of critically ill residents out of Gaza and United Nations funding to aid [...]

Rep. Betty McCollum called for an end to violence in the Gaza Strip late last week, adding her voice to those of Rep. Keith Ellison, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former Sen. Norm Coleman.

Members of a committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) brought a striking yet silent protest to the plaza outside St. Paul’s Ecolab on Wednesday.
Group members stood vigilantly on the steps, wearing bright orange bodysuits with black bags draped solemnly over their heads. Some of the demonstrators held banners and displayed posters that identified torture [...]

Apparently the banner was too small. Five years ago today, when the president swooped in, all flight-suit-clad, to the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared before a gigantic sign marked “Mission Accomplished” that major combat operations in Iraq were over, that’s what he meant, according  to White House press secretary Dana Perino. (Sen. [...]

In an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sen. John Edwards calls the paper to task for failing to report on the real human impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He takes issue with writer Lawrence Downes for not detailing the real number of casualties. And he rebukes the media [...]

Barack Obama is a “conventional liberal” whose “habit of spouting internationalist bromides suggests little affinity for serious realism,” yet he’s the best presidential candidate conservatives have got, according to Andrew J. Bacevich of The American Conservative.

An author, Boston University international relations professor and self-described “Catholic conservative,” Bacevich (pictured) writes that the “Republican Party does not [...]

It had to happen: The fumbled invasion of Iraq has eventually turned into a five-year-old war made up of mistakes and misleading information. Today, on the anniversary of the invasion, it’s still a petulant and fully loaded child: The majority of Americans don’t want it, and John McCain doesn’t even understand it. Poor Iraq.

Here, then, [...]

March marks the five-year anniversary of the Iraq War, aka “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” As winter recedes and roads open up again in Iraq, we learn that violence is again increasing, as it has every year around this time. In fact, the last few weeks have seen an uptick in attacks by home-grown insurgents, but the [...]

As I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted in 2003 — I’m noticing recurrent choices of words and phrases that may signal that they were [...]

The National Intelligence Estimate on the subject, representing the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, is that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, probably couldn’t process enough fuel for a bomb until the middle of the next decade, if it were to resume efforts to make such a weapon.

I don’t want to get ahead of [...]