CIA assassins have it easier in the movies.

So now we are told that shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency began planning to unleash assassination teams on al-Qaida’s leadership, but for almost eight years, the…

Jack Bauer didn't get the memo.

If it weren’t so disturbing, it would be funny.

CIA interrogators had been handed Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi national believed to be a top strategist for al-Qaida. He’d been captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and…

Fighting in the Khyber Pass between Afghanistan and that part of India that's now Pakistan was never as romantic as in movies. And it won't be this time around, either.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains
and the women come…

English football's Manchester United may need a new sponsor.

As he often does, the comedian Andy Borowitz nailed it Monday on his online satire site, BorowitzReport.com:

In New Terror Video, AIG Demands Huge Ransom from U.S.
Shadowy Group Seeks Bonuses, Golf Retreats

American intelligence experts…

"Bring out your dead!"

Even by the flamboyant headline standards of England’s The Sun newspaper (“Worst mum in the world!”), this one was a real attention-grabber: “Deadliest weapon so far … the plague.”
Black Death — the plague — swept through a terrorist…

 After two weeks’ vacation and more than 1,700 Midwestern highway miles, I came home looking for some wisdom. I found it on the editorial page of Sunday’s Post-Dispatch — in a letter to the editor by Dorothy Anderson of Spanish Lake:
“I have…