Articles filed under Commentary
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Obama must stick to the deadline in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - When he ordered his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama pledged U.S. troops "will begin to come home" in summer 2011. Discouraging reports from the war...
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Consumed by caution in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer s...
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On Afghanistan, fast-forwardJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against ...
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A year after Cairo, little has changedJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - One year ago this month, President Obama addressed the "Muslim world" from Cairo, Egypt. Some saw that speech as unnecessary groveling. Critics - and I am among them - t...
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Gulf War syndromeJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - It's great that President Obama and his advisers finally seem to understand the atmospherics of responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Now if they'd only get the po...
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Everyone's a pundit in a Twitter eraJun 14, 2010 11:00 pm - As a newspaperman in what some consider the twilight of the age of print, it feels as if I'm being "punked." In any case, I'm pretty sure that Ashton Kutcher is messing ...
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Myth: The Web and digital technologies are killing news organizationsJun 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Last in a series. As the old saying goes: "Whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." Most people believe that traditional news organizations - and newspapers -...
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The myth of Iran's 'isolation'Jun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - In announcing the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, President Obama stressed not once but twice Iran's increasing "isolation" fro...
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Experience has key role in politicsJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Some years ago, the late New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire wrote a great column comparing politicians to plumbers. It was during one of ...
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The great race - stay tunedJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - An impromptu transcontinental race has begun, with nothing less at stake than the future of the American political and governmental system. It began a few months ago whe...