(Wall Street Journal) — Think your small business had a tough year? There were days when Farif Ali Abood had just two hours of electricity to keep his commercial sign-making shop running last year. Based in Najaf, Iraq, Mr. Abood says he relied on a generator, which burned through hundreds of dollars of fuel every […]
Former Secretary of State looks back on the Bush years.
(NY Times) — As a teenager, Jamie Christopher would tap instant messages to make plans with friends, and later she became a Facebook regular. Now a freckle-faced 25, a first lieutenant and an intelligence officer here, she is using her social networking skills to hunt insurgents and save American lives in Afghanistan. Hunched over monitors […]
(TheGrio/AP) — The senior U.S. general in Iraq since 2008, Gen. Ray Odierno, will be succeeded by a leading Pentagon general at the end of the summer, military officials said Monday. His replacement is Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin, the staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the officials said. Military officials spoke about the change on condition […]
(MotherJones.com) — If you’re an average American taxpayer, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have, since 2001, cost you personally $7,334, according to the “cost of war” counter created by the National Priorities Project (NPP). They have cost all Americans collectively more than $980,000,000,000. As a country, we’ll pass the trillion dollar mark soon. These are staggering […]