Joe Galloway

Commentary: Iraq surge has failed in its main purpose

But for the traveling politicians and this week's fifth anniversary of our invasion and occupation of Iraq, the war would have continued to be missing in action from network and cable television and the front pages of our newspapers, as well as from the attention of most Americans. | 03/19/08 19:52:57 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: When will it end?

This month marks the beginning of our country’s sixth year of war in Iraq, and still the question is: Why? The other question is: When will it end? | 03/13/08 12:09:24 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: The Pentagon is financed like Enron and run like General Motors

Pentagon procurement spending is so totally out of control that no one even attempts to separate the good and necessary weapons programs from the bad, useless and even harmful ones. | 02/28/08 16:56:56 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Some inconvenient truths, conveniently locked in a safe

One of the great strengths of the American Army that was reborn in the wake of the disastrous Vietnam War has been a rigorous After-Action Review and Lessons Learned process that’s conducted after field training exercises and battlefield combat. | 02/22/08 08:29:04 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: It's time to do right by the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan

If a society is judged by the way it treats its military veterans, then we who live in the richest nation in the world and those who lead us should be condemned for our shameful neglect and callous disregard for those who defend us. | 02/13/08 18:35:44 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Doing right by our newest veterans

There’s a fast-growing new community on the campuses of our universities and colleges — young men and women combat veterans fresh out of military service Those here at the University of Florida and Santa Fe Community College have change on their agenda. | 02/08/08 13:01:38 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Only 11 months to go

Perhaps it was the welcome thought that it was George W. Bush’s last State of the Union message that turned the legislative giants on Capitol Hill absolutely giddy this week and provoked a spectacle of fawning, applauding, cheering and jumping to their feet by lickspittles of both political parties. | 01/30/08 17:55:36 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Drop in Iraq violence threatened by assassinations

A wave of assassinations by al Qaida in Iraq and by Shiite Muslim militiamen is threatening the American-paid tribal leaders and fighters of the Sunni Awakening Councils, which are at the heart of the reduced violence in some of the most dangerous places in Iraq. | 01/24/08 15:15:16 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Pakistan awakes to home-grown jihadists

There are signs that Pakistan’s leaders finally are waking up to the threat that faces them from the Islamic jihadists who poured into the untamed provinces bordering Afghanistan six years ago and have spread their poison on fertile ground. | 01/17/08 18:12:50 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Sins of omission and sins of commission haunt Bush in Pakistan

The unfolding disaster in Pakistan in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in part a reaction to a series of inactions and actions by the Bush administration during the last six years. | 01/02/08 15:34:24 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: It's not over, over there

In a remarkable and rare display of both caution and good sense, no one in the Bush administration has begun doing victory laps over the good news from Iraq. | 12/20/07 19:59:23 By - Joe Galloway

Commentary: The disgraceful treatment of our veterans

As you do your holiday shopping this year and think about a big turkey dinner and piles of gifts and the good life that most Americans enjoy, please spare a thought for those who made it all possible: Those who serve in our military and the veterans who've worn the uniform. | 12/13/07 18:22:16 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A critical mess on Iran

The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which concluded that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program four years ago, was shocking. The fact that it was published at all was astounding. | 12/05/07 20:34:48 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: A day late and a dollar short

This week, President George W. Bush made a half-hearted stab, officially described as “low-key”, at brokering peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and cobbling together a bit of a legacy that doesn’t revolve around crusades in Muslim countries. | 11/29/07 14:56:51 By - Joseph L. Galloway

Commentary: Good riddance to them all

We are a better people and this is a better country than this. That is why, when it's weighed and judged, the Bush presidency will be found to have perverted not only our system but also the very principles on which our nation was founded. | 11/21/07 17:58:43 By - Joseph L. Galloway

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ABOUT JOE

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has called Joseph L. Galloway, a military columnist for McClatchy Newspapers, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."

Galloway is the co-author, with Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, of "We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young," a story of the first large-scale ground battle of the Vietnam War. The book was made into a movie of the same name. Galloway was portrayed in the movie by actor Barry Pepper.

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