When Americans look back years from now, what will shame us most is that our country abandoned a bedrock principle of civilized nations: that torture is without exception wrong.

The reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism. It's because that's who we are. That's what we're protecting.

It's not about left or right, it's about right and wrong.

Limiting the CIA's interrogation methods to those in the Army field manual would be dangerous because the manual is publicly available and easily accessible on the Internet.

What if warriors -- or prisoners of war -- could selectively disable their pain sense -- or their sense of decency?

It didn't take long to understand why so many soldiers were taking antidepressants.

You can't beat the Axis if you get VD.

What a beautiful little war!

Other people's culture wars always look ridiculous.

A war born in spin has now reached its Lewis Carroll period.

The more Pakistanis I talked to, the more I came to believe that the most reasonable explanations were not necessarily the most plausible ones.

FRONTLINE goes to war with a platoon of National Guard soldiers to see the war through their eyes, as they filmed it using their own camcorders.

A sudden wail pierced the night sky. It was Slasher, an AC-130 gunship, firing bullets the size of Coke bottles.

In my opinion, the moral imperative at the end of every war is reconciliation.

Bush's War will be the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history.

If the United States waits for a dramatic, 9/11-style attack on its critical infrastructure to act, it will be missing the real threat.

Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger jet may have a serious security vulnerability in its onboard computer networks that could allow passengers to access the plane's control systems.

Terrorism and War | Another Noteworthy Year