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• Opinion

Witcover: A crack in Senate Republican solidarity behind Trump

Jules Witcover: Where are the GOP giants of yore who put their principles ahead of party loyalty?

• Opinion

America and the Blowback Rule

Secretary of State Colin Powell used to talk about the Pottery Barn Rule: If you break something, such as a foreign government, you’ve bought it. Unfortunately, the U.S. has a long history of intervening and leaving chaos behind. This is what I call the Blowback Rule of unintended consequences.

• Opinion

Jesse Colvin would make a great congressman

Maryland's 1st District voters have an opportunity to elect a highly qualified military veteran to represent them in Congress.

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Trump administration guilty of hypocrisy in fight against terrorism

The Trump administration is guilty of hypocrisy in the fight against terrorism, says Rachel Marsden.

• Opinion

9/11 plus 17

With the opening of another 9/11 memorial, a nation still grapples with one day's events.

• Opinion

Fight crime by treating substance abuse

If we are to be serious about reducing crime, then the focus must be on preventing and treating substance abuse. New multi-faceted policies are needed, both in the criminal justice system and in health care.

• News

Maryland man sentenced to 35 years on federal terrorism charges

A Maryland man who authorities say traveled to Somalia and became a fighter for an al-Qaida-linked extremist group has been sentenced in New York to 35 years

• Opinion

With CIA nominee, we must draw a line on torture

The Senate needs to ask President Trump's nominee to lead the CIA some very difficult questions about her role in post-9/11 torture.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas muses on Syria, Trump and isolationism

President Trump should back away from his plans to leave Syria prematurely, says Cal Thomas.

• Opinion

By elevating torturers to high government posts, Trump shreds our remaining credibility

With the selection of Ms. Haspel and Mr. Pompeo, we shred what is left of the rule of law and turn our back on the very human rights that distinguish us from the terrorists we fight.

• Opinion

Hulu series 'The Looming Tower' powerfully revisits the road to 9/11

Hulu's 10-part docudrama based on Lawrence Wright's book about the lead-up to 9/11 is not to be missed.

By David Zurawik

Feb 28, 2018

• Opinion

Immigration and terror

Terrorism - in New York or elsewhere - isn't about lax immigration policies; it's more complicated than that.

• Opinion

Goldberg: No, they aren't terrorists, but stop appeasing antifa

Officially designating antifa a terrorist organization would open a Pandora's box of problems, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Afghanistan: A bottomless pit?

There is much to like president's Afghanistan strategy and objectives, says Cal Thomas, but the question remains: What does winning look like?

• Maryland

General from Baltimore County heads up Trump's new Afghanistan war effort

The Army general in charge of Afghanistan as President Trump revamps the strategy there was in the same Gilman class that produced Kevin Kamenetz and Robert Ehrlich

By Ian Duncan

Aug 25, 2017

• Opinion

Afghanistan: Surging again

There may be a case for sending more troops to Afghanistan but Trump hasn't made it.

• Opinion

Trump is right to focus on Iran's support of terrorism

The time has never been better for the White House to focus on Iran’s support of terrorism.

• Opinion

Rachel Marsden: Climate change is replacing war as the new pretext for imperialism

Climate change is to Europe what security threats are to America: a pretext for foreign intervention, says Rachel Marsden.

• Baltimore City Paper

Tuesday: Cathy Scott-Clark: “The Exile—The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda In Flight”

June 6

• Opinion

Cal Thomas: Terrorism's 'Groundhog Day' scenario

The terrorism scenario is always the same, says Cal Thomas. Events repeat themselves, like in the film "Groundhog Day."

• Opinion

Goldberg: Why Trump is right about terrorists being 'losers'

Jonah Goldberg says President Trump's characterization of terrorists as "losers" is apt for multiple reasons.

• Opinion

We created many of our Middle East enemies

One of the scariest parts of the very scary world we live in today is the responsibility that we and our allies bear for the creation of the enemies confronting us. This is most dreadfully true in Iraq, where thousands of Americans have died and more than $1 trillion have been wasted on a war that had no just cause, where the vacuum created by the 2003 invasion was filled by Islamic jihadists and a government and armed force more loyal to Iran than to the United States.

• Opinion

Chemical attack remains unproven

Americans should be skeptical about U.S. claims of a chemical attack by Syrian government

• Opinion

A belated thank you to African Americans

Nothing has left me feeling more aggrieved than the sudden realization that in much of America, I will never be more than a second class citizen. All of a sudden, being of Indian descent and brown-skinned feels like a disadvantage. It never felt quite like this before.

• Baltimore Sun

The erosion of Md. gun laws

Gov. Hogan hasn't tried to change Md. gun laws, but his appointees to one board are loosening the way they're interpreted.

• Opinion

To be American and Muslim is not a contradiction

America is unique among all the major Western democracies in that it is the only country in which a sizable percentage of its Muslims are native-born African-American converts. This group has flourished as part of the American experiment. The First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and religion have provided the foundation for the African-American Muslim community's success and resiliency. Members have fought in every major American war. They are doctors, lawyers, sports figures,

• Opinion

Leonard Pitts Jr.: White terrorism not as bad a Muslim terrorism?

America has a double standard on terrorism, says Leonard Pitts Jr., refusing to recognize it when whites are the perpetrators.

• Opinion

'Middle East conflict' describes more than just Israeli-Palestinian dispute

If President Trump is determined to be Israel's best friend, he might aim his sights a little lower and deflate the idea that the Israeli-Palestinian issue is the key to resolving the Middle East's many conflicts.

• Opinion

Alternative fact of the week: Trump, Obama and travel bans

No, President Trump, what you did on immigration is not even remotely the same as what President Obama did in 2011.

• Opinion

Donald Trump: Torturer-in-chief

The new president has set the nation on a potentially dangerous new course by reopening the possibility of torturing terrorist suspects

• Opinion

The new world disorder

With the tumultuous events of the past year slowly receding in our rear view mirror, we can reasonably say that the world of 2017 is going to be fundamentally different from the year 2016. A great transformation has occurred in the past few months that will leave the United States and the world dramatically changed.

• Opinion

Goldberg: Partisan politics and the Russian hacking imbroglio

Julian Assange may be an enemy of America, but he's a useful tool for the GOP, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

The real Russian 'interference'

Complaints of Russian involvement in U.S. election miss the bigger picture

• Al-Qaeda

Bill leaves status of Baltimore County man, other Guantanamo detainees unchanged

Congressional negotiators stripped a provision from an annual bill that would have opened up a way for a Baltimore County man who has spent more than a deca

By Ian Duncan

Nov 29, 2016

• Opinion

Where's the outrage over Saudi atrocities in Yemen?

Where's the outrage over Saudi atrocities in Yemen?

• Opinion

Narrative-building has become a political obsession

I'm not naive. Crafting stories to serve political purposes is as old as politics itself. But the problem seems to be getting worse. Perhaps it's because our country is so polarized and our media environment so balkanized and instantaneous. Politicians and journalists alike feel compelled to make facts serve some larger tale in every utterance.

• Opinion

U.S. needs Libya inquiry

British found problems in 2011 invasion so why hasn't U.S. looked into botched Libya policies?

• Opinion

Stop supporting the Saudi war in Yemen

The U.S. should stop supporting Saudi aggression in Yemen

• Asia

Majid Khan, at Guantanamo Bay, apologizes, asks forgiveness for role in al-Qaida terror

Former Baltimore County resident Majid Khan, making his first appearance before a military commission in four years, is expected to agree Wednesday to a new plea deal on charges he plotted with senior al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan and helped the group carry out a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia.

By Ian Duncan

Sep 14, 2016

• Opinion

Syria's fragile cease-fire

In the next few days we should know one way or another whether Russia can be counted on to help end the fighting

• Asia

Family of Guantanamo detainee grapples with his terror plea and torture

It was night, and Mahmood Khan's family was asleep when the Maryland man opened the Senate torture report. As he read through the pages, he learned what the CIA had done to his little brother Majid during the three years his family had thought he was dead.

By Ian Duncan

Sep 13, 2016

• Harford

Harford surgeon and Army reservist deployed to Afghanistan in United States' longest war

On Friday, Bel Air-based surgeon Dr. Geoff Bloomfield will start his deployment to Afghanistan, the theater where the U.S. military has prosecuted a nearly 15-year war – the longest war in the nation's history – against the Taliban.

By David Anderson

Sep 12, 2016

• Opinion

Trump's focus on ISIS reveals his ignorance

Donald Trump's accusation that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are "founders of ISIS" is not only a good example of his reckless fear-mongering but also his complete lack of understanding about true threats to national security.

• Baltimore County

New plan to end Baltimore County man's detention in Guantanamo

As his 10th anniversary at Guantanamo Bay draws near, an al-Qaida plotter from Baltimore is at the center of a new plan that could help resolve the cases of the dozens of men still held at the military outpost on Cuba.

By Ian Duncan

Jul 16, 2016

• Opinion

The battle for Mosul

The battle for Mosul

• Opinion

Fighting terror requires more than a sit in

Reducing risk of terrorism means looking at Saudi involvement in 9/11 and other events

• Opinion

Trump correct on Muslims

Biden is wrong to criticize Trump's concerns about Muslims

• Opinion

Lessons of Fallujah

The victory represented by the Iraqi government's recapture of the historic city won't bring peace absent a process of political reconciliation among the country's sectarian and ethnic factions

• Opinion

The battle for Fallujah

The outcome will be a test of Iraq's political leadership as well as of U.S. strategy in the region

• Opinion

O'Malley's remarks on Trump are just more liberal claptrap

O'Malley on Trump just more liberal claptrap