Republicans have renewed their enthusiasm for Middle East war. Okay, fine. Let’s just be sure that this time, we win. And that means doing things differently: Different from Barack Obama, of course, but different, also, from George W. Bush.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), an Iraq War veteran, candidly told the moderator of a CPAC panel discussion that he would not have gone to war in Iraq.
Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. should be wary of trusting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warnings on Iran, because Netanyahu had also backed the Iraq War. Kerry’s remarks were hypocritical, since he also supported the war. And they raise the disturbing suggestion, beloved of conspiracy theorists, that Israel is dragging the U.S. to war. Yet it is worth asking whether Kerry’s criticism has merit.
Wednesday at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, while addressing the 2003 Iraq war during his brother’s administration, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said, “there were mistakes made in Iraq.” Bush said, “There were mistakes in Iraq for sure. Using the
Tuesday on the “The Rush Limbaugh Show,” in calling out specifically Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, host Rush Limbaugh made the point that the left’s relentless attack on President George W. Bush’s 2003 Iraq war has brainwashed a generation
The CIA, working in coordination with U.S. troops, bought and destroyed hundreds of nerve agent rockets during the occupation of Iraq under a nonproliferation plan dubbed Operation Avarice, The New York Times (NYT) reports.
Iraq War veteran Joey Hurst, who was stationed at Ayn al-Assad Air Base said he feels “disenfranchised” as ISIS threatens the base on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” “I feel disenfranchised. I was just talking with one of my old Army buddies that
At the opening of his Monday “The Daily Show” broadcast on Comedy Central reacted to the controversies swirling around embattled NBC “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams. Stewart mocked the increased media scrutiny of Williams and his career, but went on
The Ronald Reagan Library debuted an exhibit on Saturday which pays tribute to California’s fallen men and women. The “Remembering Our Fallen” exhibit honors the 725 lives that perished making the ultimate sacrifice by serving to protect the United States
Iraq War veteran and fmr. US Army sniper Garett Reppenhagen argued that the film “American Sniper is “from a very particular point of view” on Wednesday’s “The Last Word” on MSNBC. “I think the major thing that we have to
While watching Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper on January 26, it occurred to the author that while the movie is primarily a film that honors the life of American hero Chris Kyle–and rightfully so–it is also a film that tells a story about the good uses of a gun — a story about a good guy with a gun stopping bad guys.
Clint Eastwood’s masterpiece, American Sniper, has shattered box office records and touched a chord in movie audiences across the country. The film has also unleashed an unbecoming waft of snarkiness from a pair of Hollywood insiders— Seth Rogan and Michael
Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has seen “American Sniper” twice and is now pretending he has cracked its cultural and political code. Naturally, what he discovered perfectly fits his own leftist leanings. And that must feel pretty good. After all, director Clint
The Iraq War may have been a serious mistake. Regardless, we cannot dwell on that mistake so obsessively that we fail to act–as we did in the 1930s–to stop a new threat.
In the wake of the record-breaking commercial and critical success of Clint Eastwood’s latest film, American Sniper, liberal Hollywood figures took to Twitter to excoriate the film and its protagonist, the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
