Over at Foreign Policy, Will Marshall laments the fact that America's position of "global leader" is being "strained" by a GOP that is "increasingly in thrall to libertarian ideas." If only this renewed skepticism towards unwarranted, unpopular, and illegal wars - he...
Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that "the CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures." "The shipments," the...
The following is an excerpt from Democracy Now, in which Noam Chomsky responds to Obama's Tuesday night Syria speech: "Well, the Russian plan is a godsend for Obama. It saves him from what would look like a very serious political defeat. He has not been able to obtain...
Via Emily Ekins at Reason.com, polling shows 74 percent of Americans think bombing Syria would be “unwise” and half of Americans believe the D.C. establishment wants war more than the public. We've known about the low public support for strikes in Syria form the...
As the American people await the possible commencement of another U.S. war in the Middle East, Veronique de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, has put together a series of charts to illustrate the uncontrollable financial...
In most cases throughout Obama's presidency, I've hesitated to criticize the administration for incompetence or ineptitude. In his famously deliberative style, I've typically believed President Obama to be cold and calculating in his ruthless and extra-legal drone...
From the very beginning of the Obama administration's call for war in Syria to punish the Assad regime for allegedly using chemical weapons, the point of American hypocrisy has been made and made again. As U.S. officials gasp at chemical weapons use in Syria and cite...
In a press conference yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry responded to a question about what could be done to avoid a U.S. attack on Syria by laying out specific measures that could be taken. Bashar al-Assad "could turn over every single bit of his chemical...
The Wall Street Journal reports on intelligence suggesting militants in the region will abruptly go on the offensive against the U.S. if the Obama administration bombs Syria: The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy...
Huffington Post: McCain had planned to talk about immigration and other issues at the gathering at a public library, but Syria dominated the conversation. He was interrupted from the start by someone shouting that his response on the topic wasn't good enough. A few...
