The most famous army private in America has now truly earned her heroic accolades but not on the battlefield. Don't get me wrong, I believe that any soldier who survives Iraq is heroic and worthy of our love and admiration, it's just that Jessica Lynch wasn't any more or less...

When I was a young journalist I developed a professional crush on New York Times war correspondent Gloria Emerson. She was never impressed by the waging of war but rather her commitment as a journalist was to the human beings, both soldier and civilian who were ruined by it. In...

A few months before he died of cancer, much-decorated Vietnam War hero, Colonel David Hackworth told me, "There is no military solution to the war. We have lost the war in Iraq." That was in September of 2004 -two and a half years before the Iraq Study Group weighed in...