The New York Times has been running leaked information about the war in Afghanistan, and–surprise!–it’s not going as well as the administration would like you to believe. What a shock. The administration was quick to point out that none of the information contained in the leaks was exactly new, which is true. Critics of publishing [...]

With all the bad news coming out of Afghanistan, I thought I’d look for the silver lining in the latest storm cloud, the firing of General Stanley McChrystal for his and his staff’s contemptuous comments about their civilian bosses. At least one group of soldiers is leaving America’s longest war ahead of schedule.

It’s deja vu all over again. Our escalation in Afghanistan takes me back to the bad old days of Vietnam, another war fought with dubious goals and supporting an unreliable local government. And we all know how that one turned out.

This is a bit of a departure for me–an all-digitally created cartoon, but I thought it had more impact this way than if I’d drawn it by hand. Obama’s speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize was both masterful and mystifying. I sincerely hope that he’s correct that the war he has chosen to take on [...]

With job creation at the top of the economic wish list as the nation slowly recovers from the deep recession, and with the Afghanistan decision made, Obama last week convened a jobs summit. The truth is, and everyone knows it, there’s little more that can be done to create the millions of jobs needed to [...]

President Obama is expected to announce tomorrow night that he will be sending additional tens of thousands of troops to Afghanistan. If he buys into this conflict, like it or not, it will cease to be George W. Bush’s failure; it will become Obama’s war. Granted, the current occupant of the oval office was left [...]

The President, after months of deliberating, will soon announce his decision about how this country will wage war against the Taliban and al Quaeda in Afghanistan. By all accounts, he was deeply moved by the memorial ceremony at Fort Hood, and by the sacrifices our soldiers make in protecting this nation. I hope that he [...]

President Obama announced the other day that he is still studying his options before committing more troops to the war in Afghanistan. None of his options are all that appealing. Afghanistan is starting to look eerily like Vietnam: a weak, corrupt government, an entrenched and resolute enemy, difficult terrain, and a lack of popular support [...]