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A US marine aims his riffle during a amphibious assault military drill as part of the annual combined military exercise Cobra Gold 2012 at a Navy base in Sattahip on February 10, 2012. Out. Everywhere. Yesterday. Those three words sum up the mood here at home when it comes to American military presence outside US borders. President...

  How poignant that the first anniversary of a true Arab pro-democracy movement in the Persian Gulf – then ruthlessly crushed – falls on February 14, when Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the West. Talk about a doomed love affair. And how does Washington honor this tragic love story? By resuming...

A woman walks past a shop selling dragon image hangings at a Lunar New Year decorative items market in downtown Hanoi on January 17. Vietnamese are often seen as a very tolerant people, which is good, but we do need to pay more attention to what we tolerate. Since last week, Vietnamese netizens and local media alike have been...

  Thien menh anh hung, Victor Vu’s martial arts/historical movie, is one of the two best Tet releases this year, Bui Thac Chuyen’s horror flick Loi nguyen huyet ngai being the other Anyone interested in Vietnamese cinema should watch the movies released during...

  In 1994 I made my first trip back to Vietnam since the war.Little did I realize then the impact that trip would have on my life. It launched me on a journey to conduct research about the war, but from a viewpoint few Americans appreciated—that of the enemy we had fought there. By the...

  In Vietnam, spring is unmistakably the season of festivals. On the fourth day of the first lunar month (January 26), the Dong Ky cannon procession festival opened in the northern province of Bac Ninh with the number of people...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (L) welcomes Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Damascus, February 7, 2012. The current Syrian drama is far from the usual, clear-cut "good guys vs bad guys" Hollywood shtick. The suspension of the Arab League observers mission; the double veto by Russia and China at the...

   A photo of the Israeli F-15’s over Auschwitz On Sept. 4, 2003, three Israeli air force F-15s flew low over the gates of the former death camp at Auschwitz. On the ground — on the train tracks, in fact, leading to the gas chambers — a delegation of Israeli military...

  So many times when the big credit- rating companies have embarrassed themselves, the world has sighed and chalked it up to a business model that by design invites corruption and incompetence. Perhaps never before have the public’s expectations for the industry been lower. The fundamental flaw is that...

Newt Gingrich speaks at a Faith and Freedom Coalition rally in Myrtle Beach. Here are some things you could learn about black Americans from the recent statements and insinuations of Republican presidential candidates, Republican congressmen and Republican-friendly radio personalities: Black people have lost the desire to...