He was the most beautiful boy. Not like the rubbery-faced Mick Jagger, as is repeated endlessly, but rather more like JFK Junior - during his Brown University years before he bulked up. In his youthful photos, all post-kidnap, J. Paul Getty III or Paul as I believe he was known,...

I bet you think David Frum's devoted Republican wife would be doing her spouse a solid by closing her MacBook and stepping away from the keyboard. Danielle Crittenden's shameless attempt to re-brand her Iraq-War-hawk husband as warm and fuzzy is as transparent as the beleaguered Richard Nixon's desperate...

Isn't it ironic? A Hollywood movie focuses the media away from Kate Gosselin's hair extensions and into a belated frenzy of soldier interviews and Iraq War fact checking. If only this determination to get it right had preceded the invasion.

Excluding some excellent memoirs by Iraq veterans and despite...

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...