For too long I've been focused on the ruthlessness of President Obama's drone war. Indeed, he targets individuals he can't even identify and, out of the approximately 4,000 people killed, less than 2 percent have been senior al-Qaeda members. The administration...
In an interview with The Daily Caller, NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake the Obama administration's targeting of journalists, their sources, and government whistleblowers is an attack on the First Amendment. “[R]eporters have shared with me privately that some of their...
There's a discussion over at the Lawfare blog about whether or not finally repealing the expansive war powers authorized in the 2001 AUMF will actually do anything to constrain Obama and future U.S. presidents. Mind you, the Lawfare crowd includes former Bush...
According to Angel Rabasa of the RAND Corp., we really need to start directly arming the Syrian rebels. How do we do that without bolstering the influence and lethality of extremist groups? Simple, he says: just "establish as soon as possible a task force to organize...
From the Facebook page of Robert Higgs, a photograph of an injured Iraqi boy and an important reminder: If this is what must to done to "protect my freedoms," I greatly prefer that my freedoms be left for me to protect. Of course, it's all pretentious rubbish. The...
Advocates of U.S. military action in Syria have grown fond of responding to opponents of intervention with what they seem to think is a 'gotcha.' Opponents of intervention keep warning of the potential catastrophe of getting involved in another Middle Eastern conflict...
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President Obama managed to deliver a speech on Thursday in many ways reminiscent of the rhetoric employed by candidate Obama, condemning the recklessness of the previous administration, hailing the rule of law, and citing James Madison’s warning that “No nation could...
"It's terribly important that we see the horrors of war, because then we know what's happening in our names," Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney tells ReasonTV. "If that stuff is kept secret, then we're on our way to tyranny." In this ReasonTV...
There are some high expectations for Obama's speech on national security and drone policy today. But, as I wrote yesterday, the president is unlikely to account for the most damning aspects of the drone war, like its illegality and disregard for innocent human life....
