The fact that Bradley Manning is being punished for exposing government crimes, lies, and misdeeds is a travesty unto itself, if you ask me. But charging him with "aiding the enemy" - which is punishable by death - is just piling on. In court on Tuesday, Manning's...

Retired Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, now at the Center for a New American Security, writes at Foreign Policy on Hamid Karzai's upcoming visit to Washington to discuss with the Obama administration a status of forces agreement for Afghanistan beyond 2014. He argues it's...

Here's Human Rights Watch with 8 unsavory US allies Obama should "dump": Afghanistan: As the Pentagon bows out, it is counting on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to see through the planned 2014 transition. But the Obama administration hasn't used its considerable...

Spencer Ackerman over at Danger Room posted an important piece with a vital emphasis on Chuck Hagel, countering the conviction that Hagel is a dove on foreign policy: Spying on Americans’ communications without warrants? Have at it, said Hagel. A ballistic missile...

The bulk of the US's "counter-terrorism" activity is obviously in Afghanistan-Pakistan and Yemen, what with the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the secret drone war in Pakistan and Yemen. But outside these centers of US aggression, it becomes clear how the 'war on...

In the US foreign policy community, one major legacy of George W. Bush's war in Iraq is that it gave Iraq to the Shiites and thus to Iran. There is some focus on the fact that the administration lied the country into war, and almost none on the fact that this led to...

If one were looking for a way to demonstrate how faithfully the Obama administration had carried on the legacy of the Bush administration, this past week takes the cake, and no, I'm not talking about making Bush tax cuts on the middle class permanent. In a matter of...