Fighting a Phony War
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Aug. 20 - The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth stopped by NEWSWEEK&#39;s Washington bureau this week to explain their version of what happened in Vietnam 35 years ago and why John Kerry doesn&#39;t deserve three Purple Hearts. None were on the ...
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&quot;As you know, you go to war with the Army you have. They&#39;re not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time.&quot;.
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Past presidential candidates and their critics have been known to shade the truth for political purposes. But to memory researchers, it doesn't take intentional falsifying to understand the discrepancies in the retelling of Sen. John Kerry's war experiences.
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Iraq is a quagmire, steadily getting worse, as anyone who reads the newspaper knows. Attacks against US forces, our allies, and Iraqis seen to be collaborating with us, are on the rise, alarmingly so.
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While troop numbers are surging, the media that cover them are leaking away, worn out by the danger and expense of covering a war that refuses to end.
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As in war, there&#39;s plenty of fog and smoke on the political battlefield that makes it hard to see what&#39;s going on. But there is one place in particular that you can go and cut through the competing messages and find a least a kernel of truth.
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The pitfalls of the governmentâs use of informants with questionable backgrounds are illustrated by the case of an Afghan drug lord and Taliban ally.
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The Pentagon issues a guidebook on fighting a counterinsurgency.
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âSix Days,â about the 1967 war in the Middle East, makes for an interesting compare-and-contrast exercise.
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Honesty isn't always the most profitable policy.
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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Defending against the enemy within It's well known that military projects can sometimes yield valuable spin-off technologies for civilian markets.â¦
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The Democrats' internecine squabbling over the war is a family argument about tactics, not a showdown over principle. The left should remember that.
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The President is trying to fend off a Republican rebellion over the war. But broad-brush propaganda may not work this time
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The jihadists' tactics aren't mysterious. We just need help on the  ground
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On the face of it, the facts of British politics are obvious enough. Tony Blair&#39;s government is unpopular; Britain is mired in what is widely perceived to be an illegitimate war in Iraq; and
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In the showdown between Iran and the United States, both sides are bluffing. But that doesn't make it any less dangerous.