War & Peace

Only we can create a new story, and if we do, the world will respond gratefully.

After thousands of years of bloody wars among contending tribes, regions, and nations, is it finally possible to dispense with the chauvinist ideas of the past?

It is the sign of a sick country when the people worship authority.

James Foley is pushing back from the grave.

Above all, the world needs hope.

Obama declared a perpetual war against anyone he wants anywhere in the world, an action that violates the UN Charter.

Today, 11 September 2014, imagine a world we could have before us if we had then responded with humility instead of bravado.

President Obama's Wednesday night address on the Islamic State reintroduced a war weary nation to more violent intervention in Iraq, another war weary nation.

Like layers of an onion, ISIS supporters can be carefully peeled away. But not if Obama goes into Syria and Iraq with a mallet.

The agony of loss the parents of Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff must feel is beyond comprehension. But is their pain any different from the universal pain of violence …