F-15
May 20, 1978
GENERAL ARTICLES TRB: “Unobstructed View” by the Editors “Comment: The Trouble with Lawyers” by the Editors “The F-15 Sale” by the Editors “White House Watch: Change of Life” by John Osborne “Sourcery” by Alan Green and Kay Manning “An Angry Visit” by Colin Legum “Carter in November” by Ken Bode “Carter in 1980” by Henry Fairlie “The Man Behind the Cardigan” by Gary Trudeau ARTS AND LIVES READ MORE >>
Why Is Obama Selling Arms to a Theocratic Dictatorship?
The Bomb Squad
Imagine for a moment that it is late 2010, perhaps a few weeks after the midterm elections. Barack Obama has scheduled a surprise prime-time televised statement from the Oval Office. Looking grave, even shaken, behind the presidential desk, Obama fixes his gaze into the camera and speaks: READ MORE >>
Letting Go
At dawn, the sky over Baghdad turns red for a few minutes before sunlight breaks through the dust. Combat engineers have been clearing IEDs from the streets of Amiriyah since 3 a.m., but the 500 American soldiers about to descend on the western Baghdad neighborhood wait for the sun. Just as it rises, Apache helicopter gunships arrive overhead, and, in the blinding light above them, two F-15 attack aircraft begin circling in a wide arc. The radio chatter quickens as the Bradley Fighting Vehicles on the ground and the aviation units above check in with one another. READ MORE >>
