According to the nation's top military officer, direct U.S. intervention in Syria would be extremely costly, risk mission creep, lend itself to unintended consequences, and may be ineffective. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey has written a letter...
At the end of last week I expressed my doubts that Secretary of State John Kerry could orchestrate substantive peace talks between Israel-Palestine. At the crux of it, since Israel refuses to freeze settlements, and since settlements essentially indicate an intention...
Libertarian-leaning Republicans are holding up a defense appropriations bill until they get amendments through that will block funding for any military operations in either Syria or Egypt and for dragnet-style NSA surveillance. Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) is...
Nearly 12 years after the 9/11 attack, virtually every single element of national security policy - from the occupation of Afghanistan, to the drone war, to a massive NSA surveillance apparatus, to a defense budget that outpaces the rest of the world combined - is...
Secretary of State John Kerry has now gone to Israel-Palestine six times in five months in an attempt to restart negotiations between the two parties. One wonders what in the world he is saying in these private, one-on-one meetings. As Kerry shuttles back and forth,...
A lot of people are up in arms over the announcement that Liz Cheney, daughter of war criminal Dick Cheney, will run against fellow Republican Mike Enzi for his Senate seat in Wyoming. Republicans are upset because it's uncouth for a Republican to challenge an...
In debating a U.S. intervention in Syria, there has been a lot of talk about whether or not it would be comparable to Iraq. Advocates of intervention say "Syria is not Iraq," and argue we have "over-learned the lessons of Iraq." Opponents, like myself, say Syria is...
Edward Snowden has formerly requested temporary asylum in Russia and promised, under President Putin's stipulations, that he will not leak anything further. Still, his ultimate destination is thought to be somewhere in Latin America. From Just the Facts, here are some...
