Stories tagged "war"

The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US's world standing much sooner than most analysts predict. What was difficult to foresee was

Dick Cheney denounced the Georgia war as evidence of a pattern of “troublesome and unhelpful actions.”

"The Wrecking Crew" does have one virtue. Frank shows that the Republicans have spawned a new generation of brownshirts that lust to imprison, torture, and kill people. These ignorant bloodthirsty thugs see enemies everywhere and fervently desire to nuke

Today in history, September 6th, 1915, a 14-ton prototype tank named Little Willie rolled off an English assembly line with numerous military and technical problems, yet in spite of this the age of tank warfare began on the battlefields.

The strike was the first of what American military officials said could be more raids to attack Taliban insurgents in Pakistan's tribal region.

This pernicious doctrine is gravely mistaken on many levels. First, it doesn’t work. In World War II, the bombings of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other cities did not cause the Germans or Japanese to overthrow their governments. If anything

If the raid does in fact mark the beginning of a new US policy in the tribal areas, it is expected to considerably complicate US relations with the Pakistani government.

in pressing and prodding Pakistan to take greater military action alongside America, U.S. leaders reveal just how little they know about the country and the path to lasting peace.

With foreigners coming to America to buy goods on the cheap, you must ask yourself: What is going on with the American Economy?

He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."