War

WASHINGTON -- At a White House dinner with a group of historians at the beginning of the summer, Robert Dallek, a shrewd student of both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, offered a chilling comment to President Obama. "In my judgment," he recalls saying, "war kills off great...

How to fund the proposed overhaul of health care? How about the Pentagon handing over a half-trillion dollars for health care for all Americans, for education, infrastructure improvements, and development assistance for the poorest nations? Recent articles in the West Central Tribune...

The Nuremberg trials following World War II represented a transformation in legal concepts. It was in June 1945 that the four victorious powers sat down to draw up the London Agreement and the charter to serve as the legal foundation for the Nuremberg trials -- 12 years after the...

Tucked inside the Willmar City Auditorium is the Memorial Room, a space dedicated to the memory of veterans of all wars. The room is located left of the lobby and is entered through ornate wooden doors with inset panels and carved decorative designs. The 29-foot by 24-foot room is...

In August of 1964, I was in the Combat Information Center of a destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. Supposedly, the ships in the area were attacked by North Vietnam boats. History has since proven that false. Anyway, that night the U.S. bombing started, costing us 58,000 soldiers in an...

Although I'm not canceling my subscription, I was very disappointed when the West Central Tribune endorsed Republicans in the presidential and senatorial races. It seems to me that intelligent people could see through the smokescreens ("Let's start a war, and tell them we can't change...

The greed-induced meltdown has created concern in all of us about our financial future. It has overshadowed the fact that for the past five years our country has been committed to the most tragic violation of human rights since slavery... the war without a cause. Tens of thousands...