Mike Yon now says that we must speed our exit from Afghanistan. Fair enough, but you’ve got to own your cheerleading, buddy.

An unlikely meeting between Richard Goodwin and Che Guevara gives us a unique document from a Cold War that was getting hotter. I wonder what Che would make of Afghanistan?

Guest columnist Ali K.Chishti, star Pakistani journalist, takes over Line of Departure to give us his sitrep on the many Taliban, U.S. strategic options in AfPak and what we should be doing, but aren’t.

Codename “Crabapple” takes Line of Departure to the woodshed. Ouch, that hurts!

A smart reporter asks tough questions about the CIA’s drone program. But I think we should put the assassination campaign into a slightly different context.

Obama speaks to the nation about bin Laden, Pakistan and terror. Some of it even was true.

The White House and Pentagon should just show the photos of a dead Osama bin Laden. You have a right to see them and they shouldn’t be allowed to hide them.

A decent man, a good man, talks about what went wrong in Iraq, what could go right in Afghanistan and how the Pentagon should change some things.

One of my favorite subjects is Reel Life vs. Real Life.
As I told my kids while they were growing up, when a movie is billed as “BASED on a true story,” it means large parts of the movie are untrue.  If it’s billed as “INSPIRED by a true story,” it means it’s almost total fiction.
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Jamie McIntyre discusses failures that allowed attempted bombing by Umar Farouk Abdulmullatab of Northwest Airlines flight Christmas Day with Shannon Bream, of the Fox News Channel, Sunday, January 10, 2010