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A Different Kind of Homecoming

Dan Glickman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Dan Glickman

It is that rare film that compels me to encourage everyone I know -- particularly policymakers -- to stop, look and listen.

Saturday's Provincial Elections Demonstrate "Ordinary" Iraqis' Courage

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Heather Robinson

For the first time in Iraq's democratic history, at Saturday's provincial elections, Iraqis handled security themselves -- a remarkable accomplishment.

"I Hope Obama Fails" -- Limbaugh and Al-Qaeda Agree on Obama

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Frank Schaeffer

American success terrifies some on the right. They know America's success and President Obama's success is, for now, one and the same.

Top Marine: Time For His Troops To Leave Iraq, Enter Afghanistan

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

WASHINGTON — Iraq is stable enough to allow the roughly 22,000 U.S. Marines there to withdraw, the service's top general said Friday. "The time...

Violent Veterans, the Big Picture

Helen Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Helen Benedict

Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.

Living and Dying American

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Stephen Herrington

Back then a typical Republican was to the left of the Clintons. Nixon was a transition. It took Reagan to really define the world in which we now live, in which merit is no longer of value.

COP Haditha

S.D. Liddick | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
S.D. Liddick

The Syrian Desert is cold in December. I knew from similar country in Southern California and Nevada it would be like this. But I wasn't prepare...

Guardsman Would Rather Face Taliban Than U.S. Economy

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Nancy A. Youssef | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

DELARAM, Afghanistan -- Around the barren military base, which sits at the crossroads of the Taliban's poppy trade route, news arrives slowly. A singl...

Watching the Detectives

S.D. Liddick | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
S.D. Liddick

The Marines have accompanied the Iraqis about as far as they can go. Now they're feeling like a parent with a toddler on a bicycle. The training wheels have to come off at some point.

Jeff Mahaffey's War

S.D. Liddick | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
S.D. Liddick

Sergeant Jeff Mahaffey's QRF (Quick Reaction Force) team is composed of 12 Marines and a medic. It is on call at all times. You could say Mahaffey's boys are the modern-day cavalry.

Thanksgiving -- In Spite of Everything

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Frank Schaeffer

This Thanksgiving, be thankful for all that is going wrong. It gives us a shot at rediscovering what is beyond price.

Marines Plan Afghanistan Troop Redeployment

Los Angeles Times | Tony Perry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Reporting from Marine Headquarters At Al Asad, Iraq -- Marine Corps leaders are devising a plan to send thousands of additional combat troops to Afgha...

The Sound of Veterans Day

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Sean Gilfillan

Just as our artists have given us great music to listen to since my return from Iraq, we are now using this music to help the hundreds of thousands of troops who face a host of struggles upon returning home.

Afghanistan: A Surge in ROE Education is the First Step

Vivian Gembara | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Vivian Gembara

The ugly issue of the misconduct of some U.S. troops in a war zone must be addressed before sending more soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan.

Remember Haditha, Murtha and Marines?

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Hal Donahue

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.

Marines Ordered To Extend Tour In Afghanistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces to stay on the warfront almost a ...

4 Marines Killed By Roadside Bomb In Iraq

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Insurgents blew up four US marines in Iraq's Anbar province, marking one of the deadliest attacks against US troops in the former Sunni rebel bastion ...

Marines launch operation in Afghanistan's Taliban territory

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

OUTSIDE GARMSER, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines in helicopters and Humvees flooded into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan's most violent p...

US Marines deploying in Afghanistan for first time in years

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a ...

Suicide car bomber kills 2 US Marines in Iraq

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

BAGHDAD — A bomb-rigged truck exploded at a checkpoint Tuesday near the western city of Ramadi, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding three othe...

4 Marines to Get Courts-Martial in Japan

AP | CHISAKI WATANABE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

TOKYO — The U.S. military will court-martial four Marines in Japan for the alleged rape of a Japanese woman, a Marine Corps official said Thursd...

Marine Regiment First To Serve 5th Tour In Iraq

San Francisco Chronicle | John Koopman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Reymundo Parra has already served two tours in Iraq, and he has two Purple Hearts to show for it. Parra is a Navy hospital corpsman, a sailor who wor...

Marine Corps Wants Investigation Of Claims That Armored Vehicle Delays Cost Troops' Lives

Stars And Stripes | Jeff Schogol | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Marine Corps has asked the Defense Department Inspector General's Office to look into allegations that delays in fielding Mine Resistant Ambush Pr...

Probe Sought in Marine Vehicle Delays

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps has asked the Pentagon's inspector general to examine allegations that a nearly two-year delay in the fielding of ...

Hillary Tried To Join The Marines

Washington Post | John Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

SURE, HILLARY CLINTON HAS BEEN IN THE PUBLIC EYE FOR MORE THAN 15 YEARS, BUT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW . . . 1.It's a story she seldom tells, not even in he...