Comparing America’s Failure in Afghanistan to the Soviet’s in 1989
The New Years experience tends to generate perspective and long-term thinking. At least, that's the case with two unlikely opinionators: The New York Times and the Taliban. Both the Times and the Taliban have made strong, end of the year historical comparisons between...
War in Syria Such an Obviously Bad Idea, Even DC Insiders Know It
Why hasn't the Obama administration intervened militarily in Syria? If you read this site with any regularity, you'll know the answer to that. The great irony is that the major factors that make military intervention in Syria's civil war impractical, unworkable, and...
Declassified: US Government Colluded With Big Banks to Monitor, Disrupt Occupy Protesters as ‘Criminal Threats’
According to recently released documents, the federal government monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its very inception, internally referring to it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat despite acknowledging the movement's explicit rejection of...
