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Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsTwo weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes. Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family's Abidjan apartment during the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who ...
Air Force Spending $4 Million a Day for Libya War
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40 support aircraft in the Libya conflict, including the cost of munitions. Secretary Michael Donley tells reporters that the Air Force has spent $75 million as of Tuesday morning on the war. He says the U.S. decision to end its combat strike role in the conflict will cut costs, but he could not say by how much. He says the Air Force has spent close to $50 million on the relief effort for the Japan earthquake, including $40 million to evacuate between 5,000-6,000 ...
The War on Hamsters Rages On in Afghanistan
By David Moye - AOL NewsThe war in Afghanistan isn't just against al-Qaida, it's also against hamsters and other varmints. According to The Wall Street Journal, a few good Americans stationed in the country are not there to battle terrorists, but to battle birds that might shut down a jet engine in flight, as well Indian crested porcupines, golden jackals, gray dwarf hamsters and Libyan jirds, a sort of giant gerbil. Franck Fife, AFP / Getty Images There's a war in Afghanistan against hamsters and other varmints. George Graves, 57, is the equivalent to David Petraeus (emphasis on the "pet," of course) ...
The Book on Frank Buckles: America's Last Doughboy
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsI met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The last surviving American veteran of World War I lived on nearly four more years. He died Sunday at 110. At the time we met, Buckles was one of four known surviving U.S. veterans from World War I and the only one still able to give interviews. With time running out -- or so I thought -- I drove over from Washington, D.C., to interview him at his home for USA Today. Getty Images / AP Frank Buckles is shown at left in 2008, at the age of ...
For the War's Wounded Troops and Families, Elmo Can Help
By not in system - AOL NewsHow can you gently explain to a 4-year-old that Daddy has been killed in Afghanistan and will never come home? How does a combat-wounded Marine convince his scared young son that he's still the same loving Dad, even though his thighs now end in stumps? ...
What Does North Korea Want?
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Nov. 23) -- North Korea, the capricious wild child of the international community, is acting out to get the world's attention with deadly consequences that threaten to spiral out of control. What isn't clear is why Pyongyang is so rapidly escalating its provocations now, or whether today's shelling of a populated South Korean island and other actions -- acts of war in most contexts -- could set the secretive nuclear-armed state on a path toward open combat with its neighbors that would almost certainly draw in the United States. Stalinist North Korea is the most opaque nation in the world, ...
Forget the Midterms, American Politics as Usual Continue in Kyrgyzstan
By Paul Wachter - AOL NewsOPINION (Nov. 2) -- Though the midterm elections will be the talk of the day, for a more revealing look at modern American political policy you should check out this fascinating and disturbing report on Kyrgyzstan from The Washington Post. The report is really about a shadowy U.S. businessman, Douglas Edelman, operating in the Central Asian republic. Edelman opened a hamburger joint in the capital of Bishkek, but he took full advantage of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and now "the 58-year-old Californian, along with a young Kyrgyz partner, controls a multinational jet fuel business that ...
Post-War Mental Health Woes: Gender a Key Factor
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- The "battle of the sexes" might prove to be more than just a tired cliche: According to a new study, a gendered distinction in the mental health problems that plague military servicemembers might help experts identify effective prevention and treatment strategies. Female veterans are more likely to be diagnosed with depression after serving in a war zone, while men appear more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder. The San Fransisco VA Medical Center study of 330,000 veterans, all of whom served between 2002 and 2008, found a clear divergence between male and female ...
Army Awards $17 Million to Study Military Suicides
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- The Army will spend $17 million to try to determine why so many American soldiers and veterans kill themselves. The Army awarded the money to Florida State University and the Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center to establish the Military Suicide Research Consortium, according to Florida TV station WCTV. More than 1,100 servicemen and women killed themselves from 2005 to 2009, according to The Associated Press. "These suicides have deeply affected the military leadership, and they are desperate to do something about it," said Thomas Joiner, professor of psychology at FSU, ...
Opinion: Why Are Democrats Shying Away From Wars?
By Lionel Beehner - AOL News(Oct. 27) -- President Barack Obama is surging into Afghanistan but running away from the war on the campaign trail. Why? At a Minnesota rally, Obama recently boasted about creating jobs and giving Pell grants but did not mention the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan once. Ditto at an event for Barbara Boxer in California, except to make a passing reference to pulling 100,000 troops out of Iraq. At a recent Democratic National Committee dinner in Palo Alto, he mentioned fuel economy standards for cars and trucks a bunch but left out the fact that Americans are fighting terrorists overseas. And ...
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