Commentary | THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK Mar 26, 2012

Costs of a policy of profligacy with foreign lives

by Hiroaki Sato

In the early hours of March 11, Sunday, a U.S. soldier went on a rampage in a village in Panjway, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. He went from one mud house to another, shot, stabbed, and burned 16 villagers. Or so it has been reported. ...

Global-related Jan 12, 2012

U.S. overlooks the true tolls of its wars

by John Tirman

As the United States officially ended the war in Iraq last month, President Barack Obama spoke eloquently at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, lauding troops for “your patriotism, your commitment to fulfill your mission, your abiding commitment to one another,” and offering words of grief ...