McCain never comes clean and explains that he has vastly watered down what he considers a victory.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
It's easy to take a position in a campaign. But the promises are empty if the candidate has a record opposing those very positions.
John Bruhns | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
Senator Obama's plan to leave troop elements behind would have conditions: the Iraqis would have to politically reconcile and end sectarianism. McCain's is to continue on the current path.
Edward Humes | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
Two highly suspect yet seemingly unkillable narratives continue to swirl through the election largely unchallenged: the undeniable success of "The Surge" and McCain's reputation as a proven military leader.
Hal Donahue | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics
The right wing spin doctors raise money off the very name Murtha but what really came out of the Haditha investigations? Not what you think.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
In the second part of CBS News' sit down with anchor Katie Couric, the conversation will switch to matters abroad, including the ongoing conflict on A...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics
Friday's national security debate will take on a surreal quality, with the financial crisis preoccupying both campaigns, so I am writing this debate prep checklist of possible McCain lines of attack.
Reuters | Maggie Fox | Posted 10.20.2008 | Home
WASHINGTON - Satellite images taken at night show heavily Sunni Arab neighborhoods of Baghdad began emptying before a U.S. troop surge in 2007, graphi...
Dan Froomkin | Posted 10.19.2008 | Politics
If the surge has worked, that must mean victory is just around the corner, right? That's certainly the impression that the Bush White House is trying to give -- without exactly coming out and saying so.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling | Posted 10.19.2008 | Home
Over the course of this week, OffTheBus is running a primer on some of the most important foreign policy issues the next president will face. The primer can act as a guide to how candidates Barack Obama and John McCain stand on each issue. Check out the links for more information on these issues. Today, the primer looks at where Obama and McCain stand on Iraq, Afghanistan and trade policy.
The Independent | Patrick Cockburn | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics
As he leaves Iraq this week, the outgoing US commander, General David Petraeus, is sounding far less optimistic than the Republican presidential candi...
The Guardian | Jonathan Steele | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home
Back in Baghdad for the first time this year, I was consumed by the issue of change. What's different, I would ask almost every Iraqi I met. "What abo...
John K. Wilson | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home
Obama should defuse McCain's attacks by making a simple argument: that even without the surge, the improvement in military tactics, the Sunni Awakening, and the Al-Sadr brigade truce would have also dramatically decreased violence in Iraq.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics
Voters have (or could have) all the information they need to make a choice this year. They're just making a choice that those on the left would consider a bad one.
The Miami Herald | Chris Vaughn | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Gen. David Petraeus cast such an enormous shadow the last two years that only the most fervent Army watcher could probably say wh...
Washington Post | Bob Woodward | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Throughout the summer of 2007, as the troop surge in Iraq reached full strength, Gen. David H. Petraeus kept waiting for the tide to turn. By summer's...
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics
Last week's convention sure made every superficial effort to come off as pro-Troop. And the media ate it up, not challenging a single thing. But to those of us who did serve, it was offense after offense after offense.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics
Patriotism and "Country First" have become the theme for John McCain's campaign. Several speakers, including the Republican nominee himself, John McCa...
AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALAGUSH, Afghanistan — American troops in Afghanistan will step up offensive operations this winter because insurgents a...
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
To "name" an issue is to frame the issue, and ultimately to own it. That's why Barack Obama is having such a hard time answering questions about our recent successes in Iraq.
David Quigg | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
McCain's failure of judgment, conscience, and courage during the rush to war cannot be erased. He turned his back on the only surge that might have spared us this: a surge before the invasion.
Ben Cohen | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
The mainstream media is doing exactly what it did before the build up to the Iraq War -- sucking up to McCain's perceived power and not asking relevant questions because it's fearful of being labeled unpatriotic.
Carl Jeffers | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics
There are signs, particularly in some key swing states that McCain might have a chance to win. Obama still has still not defined himself in a way that tells the American people "who he really is."
The American Prospect | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
The past few weeks have been momentous for the national conversation about Iraq. Nouri al-Maliki's explicitly stated insistence on a timetable for Ame...
August J. Pollak | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Because anything that happens to Barack Obama will be the death of his campaign. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Websit...
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics