Phil Kiver/Veteran's Corner

I will make a bold prediction here. Whatever the highest number of congressional seats the experts say are vulnerable, I will go 50 seats higher than that. I am talking about total number of new representatives of both parties.

I have had a lot of jobs in my life but never had to stand on a street corner to get one. Nor have I ever had to beg for money with a piece of cardboard.

Civilian deaths have been getting a great deal of attention in the past couple of years in the Afghanistan war — almost exclusively when members of the NATO Coalition inadvertently cause the death of “civilians.”