Month: September 2007

    Will we ever get the truth about Iraq? WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 — The number of detainees held by the American-led military coalition in Iraq has swelled by 50 percent under the troop increase ordered by...

Why isn’t this the prevailing wisdom? In a survey conducted Aug. 17-24 for ABC News, the BBC and NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, among a random national sample of 2,212 Iraqis, 72 percent in Anbar expressed no confidence...

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So where are we headed in Iraq? The fawning over General Petraeus by the most of the politicians and the media was so sickeningly sweet that diabetics were in danger of a coma. Petraeus was relatively low key and pulled off the...

When I first started blogging, I thought I’d end up writing about space travel more often. I grew up reading more science fiction than my parents and teachers thought was healthy, and always hoped that it would be possible...