Tag: mogadishu
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February 21, 2008 01:13 PM EST --
Day by day, story by story, country by country, I have found myself witnessing incredible events around the world. Massacres . . . more
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September 24, 2006 01:39 AM EDT --
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; . . . more
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August 30, 2007 06:22 PM EDT --
Bush made the connection between Iraq and Vietnam the other day. He made it in his twisted and self-serving manner...distorting history...but, he made the connection, none-the-less...and he was right. . . . more
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February 21, 2008 04:07 PM EST --
The break-up of Yugoslavia and the subsequent wars swallowed up most of the 90s, and I was present . . . more
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October 02, 2006 05:39 AM EDT --
I posted this poem sometime back on Authorsden without an introduction. A fellow author had emailed me and asked if I could provide some background information to the poem. She wasn't sure about the . . . more
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February 21, 2008 03:58 PM EST --
By the end of the Gulf War, I'd attained my career goals, and had started to bring a new emotion . . . more
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October 19, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may . . . more
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June 08, 2006 06:08 AM EDT --
Years after invading Iraq as part of the larger effort to combat terrorism, it is widely acknowledged that the action created more terrorism than it destroyed.
Now, days after Islamic militias gained . . . more
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January 23, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
It's quite interesting the way most news outlets have portrayed Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed's surrender. (He is staying in a hotel in Nairobi at the moment. Don't know how that fits with . . . more
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January 10, 2007 10:59 AM EST --
The Horn of Africa is a land of strategic importance. And the biggest proof of this is America's return to it yet again.
It seems that the United States has not learned the lessons from the 90's, . . . more
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November 24, 2006 08:19 PM EST --
It wasn't supposed to be quite like this.
The third of October, 1993 and elite military units of the world's most powerful army were savagely defeated and humiliated by a few loosely organised . . . more
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February 21, 2008 03:49 PM EST --
Thanks to my escapades in Zaire, NBC promoted me from cameraman to producer. One ambition achieved. . . . more
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