Gordon Howie's guest writer Brad Ford continues to make no sense. In his latest failed attempt at coherence, Ford quotes columnist Robert Scheer, who calls Iraq "George W. Bush's horrifying legacy" and says "the Republican attempt to shift the blame…
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Candidates Rick Weiland and Larry Pressler both think re-engaging militarily in Iraq is a bad idea. Journalist Todd Epp says our previous engagement wasn't terribly successful. The reasons for the Second Gulf War were fourfold: Get rid of weapons of…
President Barack Obama is sending 300 advisors into military and legal jeopardy to help Shiites beat Sunnis in Iraq. The war-on-the-cheap advisor model works, "as long as the security forces of the host country have the motivation and basic combat…
As President Obama responds to the collapse of Iraq by talking to Iran and sending 275 troops to secure the embassy in Baghdad, South Dakota's Democratic candidate for U.S. House Corinna Robinson sees an opportunity to remind voters of her…
...or so one could conclude from the language Rep. Kristi Noem uses in her August 29 interview with the editorial board of that Sioux Falls paper. Publisher Randall Beck asks Rep. Noem the extent to which South Dakotans are engaged…