It's the 39th anniversary of this scene, made famous in a photo by Eddie Adams. The image depicts the summary execution of Nguyen Van Lan -- an NLF fighter -- by Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the South Vietnamese director of police, after a street...
Iraq
Goldy:I suppose the crusty, cynical response would be to berate the American people for lavishing so much love and affection on a freakishly talented $30 million race horse, at the.
It's taken as an article of faith in some parts that a large number of IEDs in Iraq are coming from Iran, and that this phenonomenon is indicative of clear.
When Dave Noon came on board, he sent me Imperial Life in the Emerald City as a gift. I was inspired...
Donald Stoker is correct insofar as he notes that the success record of insurgencies isn't great. Yglesias and Drum note that the successful counter-insurgency campaigns that Stoker points out were.
Pretty old, but check out this Defense Tech post (and linked article) about Iranian efforts to keep the F-14s purchased by the Shah flying. It looks as if, contrary to.
Eric Martin cuts to the chase:Let's say, again ex arguendo, that Iran's actions have been intolerabely malicious and destructive, and that our own acts and intentions have been peaceful and pure. Would it, even then, behoove us to treat Iran's meddling in Iraq as a...
Yesterday morning, a colleague with mild tendencies towards neo-conservatism pointed, in irritation, to Ken Pollack's article in the Washington Post. "It's as if," the colleague noted, "he hadn't written a.