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On the way towards transforming the Middle East into a region more to their liking, Bush administration postwar Iraq strategists ran afoul of the Law of the Six Ps that, for those who don't know it, is: "Proper Planning Prevents Pitifully Poor Performance."

Ineffective plans of Washington administrations are also responsible for the horrors facing the country

Individual hate crimes may not demand the same attention as the Manchester attack but they point to a nation slowly being consumed by hate

The Afghanistan zigzags and the US president’s decision-making by increments in the foreign arena raise pertinent questions on national security

My strong objection to Republicans’ treatment of Obama is not based on ideology

Republicans don’t get a pass and the outspoken billionaire couldn’t have happened without them

The political freedom resulting from the war was earned on battlefields with the help of black soldiers — both free and enslaved

Waiting for the US house to put up or shut up on proposed military involvement against Isil is tantamount to waiting for darkness to go away

The Trotter Group, an organisation of black columnists, recently received a note from a former journalist who said he was wondering whether the events of the past six months may have caused any one of the "shocked" journalists of last year to re-think their commentaries concerning Harry Belafonte's critical remarks about Colin Powell.