War and Peace

"Walter B. Jones has sent more than 8,000 letters of sympathy to the survivors of U.S. service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan," begins Kelley B. Vlahos — GOP Rep. Still Doing Penance for War Vote. Said the congressman, "I think I have been forgiven through all those letters. I really do."

"It might just be that Obama can reverse the insane tide of self-destructive militarism that Dwight David Eisenhower warned us about during his 1961 farewell speech," hopes Jeff Huber — Obama’s High Noon. "Maybe, just maybe, Obama has the political skill and will to put our malignant obsession with war into remission."

"The answer now, is as it was under Bush and will be forever with government programs, is more force, more death, more money, more determination to win," worries Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. — The Afghan Disaster.