As the United States on Saturday commemorates the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks with plenty of patriotic zeal but perhaps too little introspection, peace advocates have marked the occasion by reflecting on the costs and bloody consequences of the...
Ross Douthat suggests that defeat in Afghanistan will have adverse consequences for the U.S. elsewhere in the world:Mattathias Schwartz has written an interesting account of his experience in the foreign policy “Blob” and how “blobaganda” gets produced:To understand...
On COI #160, Kyle Anzalone discusses deteriorating US ties with Iran. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned the window for negotiations with Tehran would soon close, not long after the US announced a new round of sanctions. Israeli officials, meanwhile, have vowed...
Reprinted from NewsVandal with permission.Two decades of war. Two decades of profiteering. Two decades of killing innocent bystanders.Two decades of surveillance. Two decades of detention and too many years of torture, undue process and profiling.Two decades of...
When you imagine ending a war, do you imagine the U.S. President lamenting the human cost of the war’s financial expense while simultaneously demanding that Congress increase military spending – and while mentioning new wars that could potentially be...
Ross Douthat suggests that defeat in Afghanistan will have adverse consequences for the U.S. elsewhere in the world:That said, defeats on distant frontiers can also have consequences closer to the imperial core. The American imperium can’t be toppled by the Taliban....
Former President Obama famously expressed his belief about the "war on terror" that "we need to look forward as opposed to looking backward." Will we learn from the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan? Only by looking backward.An honest assessment...
On COI #159, Kevin Gosztola joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the people who were right about the Afghan War all along, among them Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who cast the sole ‘no’ vote against the 2001 authorization to attack Afghanistan. Lee correctly predicted that...
The growing campaign to oppose Canada spending tens of billions of dollars on 88 new fighter jets faces an important, if unconventional, obstacle: the warplanes themselves. Fighter jets are an important tool of militarist propaganda.In recent weeks Royal Canadian Air...
Max Boot joins Richard Haass in touting the great success of the U.S. foreign policy establishment:Yes, post-1945 policymakers got it catastrophically wrong in Vietnam. But they got it right by containing the Soviet Union while building security alliances and...
