al-Qaeda
"Zero Dark Thirty" Has All the Depth of a John Wayne Movie
May I suggest an amendment to the Constitution? It should be as illegal as it is misleading to open a movie with any statement about its being “based on fact.” That very assertion precedes Zero Dark Thirty, the new picture by Kathryn Bigelow, which has already won several critics’ awards and must be in the running for the Best Picture Oscar. READ MORE >>
Al Qaeda’s Not as Battered as Obama Thinks
How Romney Outsmarted Himself In Last Night’s Debate
It was obvious to pretty much everyone watching last night’s debate that Mitt Romney decided to co-opt Barack Obama’s foreign policy: whether the issue was targeting Al Qaeda, withdrawing from Iraq or Afghanistan, sanctions and negotiations with Iran, the handling of Egyptian revolution, or the use of drones for counter-terrorism, Romney was happy to say “me too” over and over again. READ MORE >>
After Abbottabad: Navy SEALs and American Security
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden By Mark Owen, with Kevin Maurer (Dutton Adult, 301 pp., $26.95) I. READ MORE >>
How a Salafi Preacher Came for my Soul
Stop Calling “Homeland” The Anti-“24”
What’s “Homeland”’s secret? READ MORE >>
America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign
Syria Burns on Obama's Back Burner
Why the New Pre-9/11 Disclosures Matter
Keeping Our Heads
The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany By Tomaz Jardim (Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $29.95) Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin’s Ukraine, 1952–1953 By Hiroaki Kuromiya (University of Toronto Press, 212 pp., $60) All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals By David Scheffer (Princeton University Press, 533 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
