* Jersey Boys. Brian Douglas Williams and Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz both went to high school in New Jersey and held common, low-level jobs before working their way to the top of their respective...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/at-the-intersection-of-jon-stewart-and-brian-williams/
Now He Really Is Under Fire The veracity of the leading network news anchor, Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News, is in question—by his own fault—and now the sharks and wolves smell blood. A f...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/in-defense-of-brian-williams-new-orleans-loyal-friend/
The Guns of August, September, October . . . Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy. —Statement by...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/obama-has-plans-for-isis-now-congress-must-vote/
ISIS supporters rally in Mosul, Iraq. BBC photo. * White House Considers Special Forces to Advise Iraqis; Smells Like “Early Vietnam” Again “The United States has provided a $14 billion fo...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/obama-sends-troops-to-protect-u-s-embassy-in-baghdad/
500,000 vets may suffer from PTSD, depression, or traumatic brain injury Dan Froomkin, senior Washington correspondent for Huffington Post, reports at Nieman Watchdog that the Pentagon’s figure...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/how-many-u-s-soldiers-were-wounded-in-iraq/
* * “In August a British official close to the Bush team told Newsweek: ‘Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.’ ” —Paul Krugman, “Things to Come,” March ...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/as-end-of-iraq-war-is-announced-u-s-digs-in-warns-iran/
“While post-9/11 veterans are more supportive than the general public, just one-third (34%) say that, given the costs and benefits to the U.S., the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have both been w...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/ten-years-of-u-s-war-in-afghanistan/
America Slogs On, “Dead or Alive” Briefly, sadly noted: Today, October 7, 2010, begins the tenth year of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. How’s that hunt for Osama bin Laden going? How’s that...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/10th-year-of-afghan-war-begins/
Thoughts on Two American Traumas Between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, which do you think gets most attention, and why? What if the national focus on 9/11 is exaggerated and the nation should focu...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/is-katrina-more-significant-than-september-11/
Out of Iraq, on to Afghanistan The last combat troops have left Iraq, as a convoy of the 4th Stryker Brigade rumbled in the wee hours of August 19, 2010, from Iraq toward U.S. bases in Kuwait. At...
https://www.leveesnotwar.org/as-combat-troops-leave-iraq-where%E2%80%99s-our-national-security/