Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Every now and then, I get out one of my globes to remind myself of the geography of America’s many distant wars. Here’s a photo I took a couple of days ago: It’s always staggering to ponder how small Israel is...
The Great Retreat From Germany
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant president who can’t stand criticism of his disastrous...
William Astore on The Bloody Awful Waste of War
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Courtesy of NBC News, here’s a brief summary of the butcher’s bill of the latest wars in the Middle East: Iran’s forensics chief said nearly 3,400 people had been killed in the country since U.S.-Israeli...
William Astore on America’s Neocolonial Wars
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. America has a nasty – and uncoincidental – pattern of bombing and intervening in countries largely populated by nonwhite peoples. These are, essentially, exercises in neocolonial power. Recent targets include...
William Astore: Trump Threatens Mass Murder Yet Again
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This is madness. Unhinged madness. Imagine “blessing” the people of Iran while threatening to end their entire civilization. Yesterday, I was watching the war movie, “Fury,” which does a decent job of showing...
Stone Age Bombing
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Iran War. The lies and boasts flew thick. According to Trump, America is winning and winning big. Under Joe Biden, America was “crippled” and...
The Worse the War, the More the Lies
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The worse a war goes, the more those who wage it feel compelled to lie about it. That pattern is visible today in America’s escalating conflict with Iran. This isn’t a war formally declared, clearly explained,...
Israel Has Nuclear Weapons?
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. This morning, I went on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano to discuss the latest tomfoolery by the Trump administration. Judge Napolitano showed a clip of a U.S. government official, a nuclear...
William Astore: More on the Iran War
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. On March 19 I was on “Judging Freedom” to discuss the Iran War, America’s soaring national debt ($39 trillion and rising), the Pentagon’s call for another $200 billion to bankroll this disastrous war, Joe...
The Human Costs of War
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Command Chief Master Sergeant (ret.) Dennis Fritz went on “Judging Freedom” yesterday and spoke with force and eloquence about the human costs of war. Every American should watch and heed this video....


