When the invasion of Iraq was launched last March, a huge number
of private military contractors went into war alongside coalition
forces. These were the employees of private companies, the products
of outside agencies who have become so valuable to modern western
warfare that without them the Iraq war would have been a much more
difficult war for the United States to fight.

Last Friday I was again reminded of how visiting the United
States has begun to resemble entering a police-state. As I waited
in line to check my bags at Heathrow Airport, a couple behind me
joked about playing the “spot-the-sky-marshal” game.

Nov. 6, when three federal courts blocked the ban on
“partial-birth” abortions, the problems associated with
tampering with human life in its earliest stage became the order of
the day.