Author: Jeff Huber

The Bush administration has replaced some of its featured soloists, but its tune hasn’t changed.   During an unannounced visit to Kabul on Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the campaign to defeat the...

David S. Cloud and Damien Cave of the New York Times report that the push in Baghdad isn’t measuring up.  A U.S. assessment, completed in May, showed that American and Iraqi troops control less than one third of the...

As the “surge” progresses, Iraqi insurgents use increasingly lethal weapons and tactics, according to Ann Scott Tyson and John Ward Anderson of the Washington Post.  What’s more, the insurgents are...

It would be silly if it weren’t so deadly serious.   On June 1, in a news conference in Madrid, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the world that “The President of the United States has made it clear...

Promoted by Steven D In November 2006, Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki said Iraqi forces would be ready to assume control of security in his country by June 2007.  On May 30, 2007, Maliki told CBS News that he fears the...