Analysis: War focus holds political risk
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President Bush is casting the war on global terrorism as the central issue of the midterm elections. But it's a risky political strategy.
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One of the many mistaken assumptions during our presidential election campaign was that a Kerry victory would have led to renewed dynamism in the foreign-policy sphere, while a Bush win could only mean more of the same.
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The election Sunday may sharply impact US opinion on the war.
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Democrats face a host of risks as they move toward more substantive steps to tie President Bush's hands with funding restrictions on the Iraq war.
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History suggests that South Asia's tsunami tragedy could engender regional political fallout.
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War is hell on a presidency. And it plays havoc with presidential campaigns.
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Not since the Vietnam War more than three decades ago has the United States found itself waging a bloody conflict abroad as a fierce political argument has broken out at home
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Despite a rising death toll, the war - framed as a global defense of democracy - may be tilting in Bush's favor.
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Will pro-war stances hurt the GOP hopefuls for '08?
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A Senate analysis of intelligence-gathering activities leading up to the invasion of Iraq is certain to rekindle an election-year debate on the justification of going to war.
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The political battleground in the presidential campaign has shifted from states like Ohio and Florida to Vietnam. The all-too-real battleground of three decades ago is once again playing a
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The politics of terrorism has Democrats tied in knots. Each time President Bush raises fears of a possible attack, the political debate shifts from his most troublesome issue (Iraq) to one of his strongest (the war on terrorism) while Democrats fight their impulse to question the president's motives.
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While American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are fighting some of the most intense battles of the war against radical Islamic terrorists, our national debate on the future of the conflict has descended to platitudes of campaign rhetoric and a pathological, partisan refusal on both sides of that debate to acknowledge the harsh realities and difficult choices that confront us.
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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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For most Americans, the war in Iraq is a harrowing conflict responsible for more than 1,000 U.S. military deaths. For President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry, it represents much more as each tries to use Iraq as a prism through which voters will harshly judge their rival.
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Fissures over Iraq could make it more difficult for Republicans to coalesce on national security policy and avoid a bitter intraparty fight going into 2008.
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If war is out of control, contractorsâ incentives may lead to errors.