Content on War:
Wars take huge toll on 9th District
October 14, 2010
Free tuition at Virginia Tech? Free health care for low-income families? Drastically reduced taxes for all? Safer vacations abroad? These are but a few ways in which citizens of the 9th District could benefit from the absence of the wars in Iraq and Afgha
November 17, 2009
Keeping with the topic of Afghanistan, new questions and developments have arisen.
Column: Evaluating what constitutes terrorism at home, abroad
October 7, 2009
This column is written on the premise that it is wrong to kill innocent people. The principle underlying the war on Iraq is simple: It is righteous when we kill innocent people, but it is terrorism if they do so. This is applied to several aspects of the
Column: Counterinsurgence will need to continue in Afghanistan
September 28, 2009
Recent United States policy on Afghanistan has been fairly unified. President Barack Obama's administration has faced no obstacles in implementing its promise to deploy a significant increase in U.S. troops to Afghanistan in the hopes of overwhelming the
Column: Obama's promise on War in Iraq remains unfulfilled
August 27, 2009
Remember that war? Whatever happened to that? I heard a lot of people died. I also heard that there was no end in sight. I don't seem to hear about that war at all anymore. I remember promises of it coming to an end, even talk of a troop withdrawal. But I
Column: Nearby milestones give cause to reflect
August 5, 2009
Within the next five years, we will come upon the anniversary of two major historic military events, the start of the U.S. Civil War and World War I.
