Aid for Drone Victims
To the Editor: Re “Questions on Drone Strike Find Only Silence” (front page, Nov. 23): Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a…
Five Ways Obama Can Fix Drones Right Now
The way proponents talk about them, you’d think Zeus gifted drones straight from his backpack. Alternatively, you might also believe…
Civilians can benefit when the military learns from its mistakes
Letter to the Editor by Sarah Holewinski Thomas E. Ricks was exactly right in his Oct. 27 Sunday Opinion column,…
Marla Ruzicka’s Heroism
Arifa had lost nearly everything when Marla Ruzicka walked through the door and into her life. The American intervention in…
Bring drones out of the shadows
The president’s pick for CIA director — John Brennan — is one of a handful of U.S. officials who understands…
Drones: An Outlier in a Transparent Presidency
President Obama is quite literally writing his legacy on the use of force during his second term. According to media reports,…
Do Less Harm
The Afghanistan and Iraq wars taught the United States painful lessons about the need to limit harm to civilians and compensate…
Safeguarding Libyan Civilians
In his July 7 op-ed, “Libya becomes a democracy,” Libyan Ambassador Ali Suleiman Aujali promised that “Libyans will never forget…
In Libya, a legacy up for debate
This post originally appeared in the Huffington Post. Qaddafi is gone and NATO’s command center in Naples is closed, but…