The military alone cannot end the conflict in Afghanistan. On that much nearly everyone can agree, offering a rare island of consensus among sides... →
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings... →
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the... →
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for... →
John Lennon
I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
Annie Lennox
Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the... →
Jay Leno
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the... →
Jill Lepore
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its... →
I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't... →
Matthew Lesko