Pen and Sword

The ugliest image I'll remember from this Fourth of July is the broadcast footage of young Mister Bush playing Commander in Chief for th...

(The full article, cross posted from ePluribus Media .) I distinctly remember, after the fall of Baghdad, all the self-congratulatory backsl...

From "Stand Up! Stand Down! Fight! Fight! Fight!" Lieutenant Colonel Raad Niaf Haroosh, commander of the Iraqi battalion in Ramidi...

Around noon east coast time I'll be posting a commentary on the operation in Ramadi that analyzes the critical flaws in the "stand ...

As of late Monday, young Mister Bush, Dick Cheney and White House Press Secretary Tony Snow had pilloried the "liberal media" fo...

In politics, as in war, the Clausewitzean concepts of fog and friction apply. We can't always see ground truth, and things seldom work ...

Have we really recognized Iraqi sovereignty? The coming months should tell, because as the UK Times reports, that country's government...

I'm beyond shocked. Monica "Bush Girl" Crowley is on MSNBC right now, masquerading as an honest to goodness "news anchor...

Father Jonathan Morris of Fox News gives another lecture on the "moral justification" for staying the course in Iraq. "Bewar...

Watching the Senate and House debates on Iraq and the defense budget over the past two weeks, I've asked myself time after time Is this ...