“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.”
Philip Graham,
Former President & Publisher
The Washington Post
With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving a resolution today granting President Obama authority to launch a military strike on Syria to deter the further use of chemical weapons against civilians, sources in Damascus report…
Back in 1982, when Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad of the minority Alawite sect of Shiite Islam faced a Sunni uprising in the city of Hama, he dispatched his younger brother Rifaat to put down the…
2,000,000 The United Nations estimates that the number of civilians who have fled Syria into neighboring countries has surpassed two million, another major milestone in suffering in what U.N. officials called “the great tragedy of…
“[Secretary of State] John Kerry is famous for saying, ‘How can you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake? I would ask John Kerry, how can you ask a…
After leaving a weekend meeting with President Obama on the upcoming vote on military action in Syria, Senators John McCain, R-Az, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said they were going to hold a follow-on meeting to…
Not so very long ago, leaders on Capitol Hill were so piqued at France that they officially relabeled “French Fries” as “Freedom Fries” in Congressional cafeterias. Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously designated France…