‘What are we doing here? Why are we still here?’

The NYT’s Michael Kamber spent a week with Delta Company, an infantry company in Baghdad, and talking to more than a dozen soldiers in the unit. They’re disillusioned, frustrated, skeptical that their mission is worthwhile, and slowly beginning to realize that the Iraqis they’re training are the same Iraqis attacking them. Staff Sgt. David Safstrom […]

When Republican senators start feeling antsy

For all of the talk from war supporters about lowering expectations for September — John McCain has been at it, as has Gen. Petraeus himself — it appears the train has already left the station. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who no one would reasonably describe as anything but a very conservative Bush loyalist, appears to […]