A study by an international think tank found recently that nine out of ten Afghan men in two key southern provinces have never heard of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011
As I write these words, I am on a plane watching today's news. I remember also being on a plane when "Operation Iraqi Freedom" got underway, and I started hearing the words "Shock And Awe." All these years later, I don't have too many words left.
Washington Post | Christian Davenport | Posted 05.25.2011
In the hypercharged rush of combat, the adrenaline flows and the rhetoric soars. After the "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq, many of the names the mil...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Green Zone is a movie which, given a stronger sense of purpose, might have recounted exactly those failings and shown in stark relief how we were hoodwinked into war.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
A line near the end of my review of Jason Reitman's Up in the Air seemed to rub some readers the wrong way.
R. B. Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011
In 2003 General Petraeus led the troops into the massive battle of "shock and awe" in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 101st Airborne was the first to pav...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.17.2011
As 2010 begins, I am plunged into a fresh gloom. Wouldn't it be nice if -- like the Christmas Armistice of 1914 -- the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq simply stopped. A truce that lasted a day, that wouldn't rock the world.
Amy Ephron | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday, NASA is planning to crash into the moon. I'm just wondering: who gave them permission to crash into the moon?
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011
I see no reason why in any war there should not be 1:1 proportionality, the idea of killing no more than have been killed by the enemy.
Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011
If the TARP banks are to be a main investment vehicle for the next stage of recovery -- as they should be, it is after all our money not theirs -- it is heartening to have Obama at the helm.
Will Bunch | Posted 05.25.2011
Even after McNamara spelled out everything that went so horribly wrong in Vietnam, he lived long enough to see a new generation of the self-appointed "best and brightest" in Washington pay absolutely no mind to the lessons of our recent past.
Freddy Deknatel | Posted 05.25.2011
Khalid and Hussein are friends from Baghdad, though Hussein in his forties is a bit older. He is Shi'i; Khalid is Sunni. None of this matters to them.
Tavis Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011
I asked Secretary Gates about the recent increase of violence in Iraq and the notion that we are not winning in Afghanistan.
Randall Amster | Posted 11.17.2011
Don't you get a small adrenaline surge when the serious-sounding NPR news voice comes on the radio at the top of the hour, and you're wondering what new calamity has transpired?
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011
I spoke to Chopra Tuesday and gave him the opportunity to speak candidly about censorship in the media, the new patriotism, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and latent anti-Muslim racism in the United States.
NY Times | John Burns | Posted 05.25.2011
FIVE years on, it seems positively surreal. On the evening of March 19, 2003, a small group of Western journalists had grandstand seats for the big ...
Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011