Articles filed under Commentary
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Strong foreign policy leadership without bitter partisanshipJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Judging by the rhetoric coming out of the Obama and McCain campaigns this week, the United States is fated to endure another four years of bitter foreign policy partisan...
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When the system works against being a good fatherJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Barack Obama's recent call for responsible fatherhood is welcome, overdue -- and misleadingly incomplete. Not all fathers are trying to be good dads, it goes without sa...
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Russert was not only a great journalist, but also a great guyJun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Washington is mourning the death of Tim Russert, but the loss resonates far beyond the Potomac. I only met Russert, the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," once. It wa...
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McCain should take aim at Democrats' defeatist war policyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in...
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U.S. dealing with cagey adversary in Iran's military leaderJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's try for a moment to put ourselves in the mind of Brig. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. For it is the soft-spo...
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U.S. losing power to impose its solutions on Middle EastJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - What happens when a superpower becomes preoccupied by a costly war and loses some of its ability to coerce friends and enemies toward the outcomes it favors? We're seein...
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More than al-Qaida to worry about in the fight against terrorismMay 26, 2008 11:00 pm - At the headquarters of the National Counterterrorism Center, located in a bland office park in Northern Virginia, there's a unit called the "strategic analytical group" ...
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The last of the doughboys from World War IMay 25, 2008 11:00 pm - CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the mil...
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Treasured friendship with Kennedy never strained by ideologyMay 22, 2008 11:00 pm - These days, people on "one side" of the political spectrum are not supposed to cooperate, much less have a personal relationship with anyone on the "other side." While i...
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Ted Kennedy is one-of-a-kind as an influential leaderMay 21, 2008 11:00 pm - Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struc...