Nearly 16000 highly trained well-equipped war fighters are sitting on the sidelines in the battle for the Gulf Coast — and the fault lies not with the federal government but with the governors of the affected states   Bobby Jindal Haley Barbour Bob Riley and Charlie Crist are respectively...

President Obama in announcing the replacement of Gen Stanley McChrystal moments ago sought to reassure the American people about the war in Afghanistan "This is a change in personnel" he declared "but not a change in policy" That's precisely the problem Changing generals isn't likely to resolve the real trouble...

Greetings from Kandahar I've spent the last few days on an airfield in southern Afghanistan embedded with US forces It's very hot — like 106 degrees hot Fighting is a daily occurrence (I saw one firefight from a good distance this morning) and rocket attacks on base are the norm...

This article appears in RS 1108/1109 from July 8-22 2010 on newsstands Friday June 25 On June 15th as BP's catastrophic spill in the Gulf neared its third month President Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office His administration he assured the American people...

So to fire or not to fire? Here's how I see it If Obama doesn't fire McChrystal — and until this week I thought he never would — then it appears to prove one of the issues raised in our story That Obama can in fact be pushed around by...