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Scott Brown and the Palin Path: Will He Choose Brassy or Boring?
Democrats Leave Health Care Behind for Jobs, Toyota, Gays in Military
Murtha Turned Against War, but Not Grab-While-You-Can Politics
Rep. John Murtha, Advocate for Pa. District, Pentagon, Dies at 77
Liz Christman, Enemy of the Passive Voice, Who Rocked Some Jaunty Hats
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Afghanistan: Who Are We Fighting for, Anyway? After Eight Years, Strategy Is Still Unclear
By David Wood
Casting about in late 2001 for someone or something to replace the vanquished Taliban, President George W. Bush helped select Hamid Karzai, an Afghan exile, as the nation's new, moderate, pro-West leader. Bush introduced him to his new partner nation at the State of the Union address in January 2002, pledged U.S. support in rebuilding Afghanistan as a modern state with a strong central government in Kabul in control. Eight years later, a furious argument is raging within the U.S. military establishment about whether that idea still makes sense, or is slowly dragging America down to defeat. ...
Haiti Crisis in Photographs
By David Wood
The devastation caused by Haiti's massive Jan. 12 earthquake may have faded from the news headlines, but the suffering and misery continue. Despite massive international relief efforts, many homeless Haitians still lack daily food and water, and disease in refugee camps is a growing concern. Politics Daily military correspondent David Wood shot these photos while he was embedded with the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, in Port-au-Prince. ...
In Haiti, These U.S. Paratroopers are Saving Lives, Not Taking Them
By David Wood
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Trained and equipped to kill: the paratroopers of Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division drop silently from the sky with .50-caliber heavy machine guns that can stop a truck, TOW tank-killer missiles, and Mark-19 automatic grenade launchers that can punch through two inches of steel. Delta is a heavy weapons unit; its men are killers and proud of it. ...
Arguing About Gays in the Military: It's So Over
By David Wood
Within the boisterous, hard-living ranks of enlisted soldiers and Marines, where I spend most of my reporting time, it's been 16 years since I heard anyone argue about whether the military should allow homosexuals to serve openly. And that was only because I asked. I was penned up with several hundred Marines on the amphibious assault ship USS Barnstable County, coming home from fighting in Somalia, and because I knew that back home in Washington, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' had become a Big Issue. ...
Obama Administration Vision: War Without End
By David Wood
Suicide bombers inside the United States. Nuclear-armed nations collapsing and losing control of nuclear weapons. Bloody new conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. American troops under attack at bases around the world. Terrorist attacks using unknown new diseases. Chinese missile attacks on Taiwan. The Obama administration has unveiled a scary new view of the global security landscape and a new strategy intended to protect Americans and U.S. allies. It is a sharp change from previous Pentagon strategic assessments in that it focuses on the wars Americans are currently fighting, rather than on ...
Hungry, Homeless and Jobless in Haiti
By David Wood
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Shots rang out at midday along Grand Rue Dessalines, and two Haitian cops quickly knelt behind a smoldering trash pile for cover, peering out over their rifles. But the gunmen were swallowed up in the jostling crowds and the honking bedlam of tractor-trailers, dump trucks and hand carts jammed together on this dusty potholed thoroughfare along the city's waterfront. Things are beginning to fray in post-apocalypse Haiti as grim reality sets in. The magnificent international relief effort, while heart-warming, can't reach everyone, and those who can be reached are fed ...
U.S. Rescue Effort in Haiti Finds No One Alive
By David WoodPolitics Daily military correspondent David Wood witnessed a rescue attempt in Haiti today. Here is his latest report, filed on his BlackBerry from the scene: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, along with a U.S. search-and-rescue team, worked feverishly throughout the day to free a Haitian man trapped in the rubble in central Port-au-Prince. For a moment Tuesday afternoon, it looked as if their efforts had paid off. But sadly, an initial report to the commander that the victim had been pulled out alive from the rubble proved untrue. ...
In Haiti's Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods, Resilience
By David Wood
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-- The dead woman lay sprawled on her back, her limbs half hidden in a pile of garbage. Just beyond her outstretched hand, a middle-aged woman bathed bare-breasted in the grayish water of a drainage ditch. And a squad of paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division watched impassively as two other Haitian women discussed the best place to set up a distribution point for food and water. Here in the capital's poorest neighborhoods, where the earthquake hit the hardest and caused the most damage, life has settled into a kind of shell-shocked reality. Life was a hard struggle ...
Chaos a Constant for Haitian Relief Effort
By David Wood
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- With yellow lights flashing atop his small pickup truck, Air Force Master Sgt. Bill Van Newkirk crept along the airport taxiway with practiced precision. It was close on to midnight. Immediately behind him, a newly landed C-17 cargo plane was following, relying on Newkirk to find and insert the plane (wingspan: 178 feet) safely into a parking space among the jumble of cargo and passenger planes jammed along the single runway of Haiti's largest airport. ...
Haiti Shapes Up as a Long-Term Military Mission
By David Wood
Pope Air Force Base, N.C. – From the endless lines of military Humvees, wrecker trucks, all-terrain vehicles, ambulances, flat-bed cargo trucks, generator trucks, fuel trucks, communications vans, and paratroopers waiting in a cold rain, it's clear that the U.S. military mission in Haiti is going to be a long one. For a week, cargo handlers and loaders and flight crews have been struggling to get the 3,200 paratroopers of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division into Haiti. As of midday Thursday, the job is about two-thirds complete, with 2,177 soldiers and 2,000 tons ...
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