What we have here is a failure to find justification for war
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Now we finally know what we had long suspected. When US and British forces invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein had no chemical weapons; he had no biological weapons; he had no nuclear weapons.
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This past week the headlines in the news fit together like the pieces of a puzzle. Each news story added another dimension to the emerging picture of war policy that is increasingly costly and incompetent.
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Iraq has become the central issue in America&#39;s presidential campaign, but neither candidate has a solution for a conflict that has cost more than 1,100 American lives.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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Bush is losing hopelessly in the war of ideas. What the terrorists can teach him about strategy, propaganda and ideology.
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One of America&#039;s closest allies says the war on terrorism fails to address its root causes.
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The unity that followed the September 11 attacks five years ago was never going to last. But the nation has not merely returned to the messy family arguments of September 10. All wars bring a reckoning of means and ends, and the war on terrorism has long since lost its crisp moral lines. Americans may agree that terrorism is wicked, but they're still unsure about how to answer it.
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Pessimism about globalization seems downright un-American. It is also fundamentally illogical.
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The U.S. military buildup has brought some relief from bombs and bullets to Baghdad's shattered neighborhoods. But it has failed so far to reach its overarching purpose: getting Iraqis to agree to the political compromises that Washington consider crucial for any lasting stability.
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Once a matter of bitter disputes, the Iraq war is strangely missing from this summit of world powers. A new generation of leaders has turned attention to other problems &#151; from global warming to poverty in Africa &#151; while the war grinds into its fifth year and the U.S. death toll climbs past 3,500.
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Not since the Vietnam War more than three decades ago has the United States found itself waging a bloody conflict abroad as a fierce political argument has broken out at home
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It is a peculiar feature of contemporary American political discourse that so many analysts and opinion-makers believe that the "international community" must come to a kind of broad consensus to solve our ...
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Few campaigns in post-war American history have appeared to be as divisive as the one drawing to its still uncertain conclusion on Tuesday.
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We're fighting a war that is inflicting even greater casualties than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, incredibly, costing even more money. We're losing the War on Drugs, and we've been in retreat for three decades.
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Government fails to meet vast majority of political and military goals laid out by congress
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No faction has been able to secure absolute power, and that has only sharpened the hunger for it.
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While American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting some of the most intense battles of the war against radical Islamic terrorists, our national debate on the future of the conflict has descended to platitudes of campaign rhetoric and a pathological, partisan refusal on both sides of that debate to acknowledge the harsh realities and difficult choices that confront us.