Seventeen years after 9/11, we've spend $5.6 trillion in a "war on terror" that has left al-Qaeda "stronger than ever" (as in a recent LA Times article). Most of that war effort seems to have been directed against the American people, who these days cannot fly on a...
The following post is sponsored by The Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy (CRFP).The bipartisan initiative Committee for Responsible Foreign Policy will host an event this week examining the role of constitutional war powers in military interventions abroad, as...
TO: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySUBJECT: Moscow Has Upped the Ante in SyriaWe are concerned that you may not have been adequately briefed on the upsurge of hostilities in northwestern Syria, where Syrian armed forces with Russian...
The New York Times unleashed a firestorm by publishing an anonymously written op-ed from someone purporting to be a "senior US Administration official" and who writes of a secret cabal within the US government that conspires to thwart President Trump's agenda....
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley joined her boss, President Trump, in warning the Syrian government not to re-take the last bit of Syrian territory controlled by rebels. The problem is President Trump's own Special Envoy for the fight against ISIS has confirmed...
As a kid, I was a big admirer of Israel.* I kept a scrapbook on the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Back then, Israel was America’s plucky ally, David against Goliath, helping to keep the Soviet bear at bay, or so it seemed to me.Through a kid’s eyes, Israel in...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.Paul Pillar capably sums up why supporting the war on Yemen is not in America’s interest: Neither does the administration’s policy toward the Yemeni war accord with a realist perspective of where U.S....
Felton Davis, who coordinates a weekly vigil in NYC calling for an end to the U.S. war against Yemen, sent us a letter written by Yemen’s Minister of Education which names the students and teachers who were killed when a Saudi warplane fired a 500 lb. bomb, made...
The "National Commission on Military, National and Public Service" has announced that the final event in its year-long series of "informal" open-mike public hearings on whether registration for a military draft should be ended or extended will be...
Originally appeared on The American Conservative.USA Today published a very extensive report on conditions inside Iran this week. Here is a description of the response to the reimposition of U.S. sanctions:Still, despite rhetoric from the Trump administration and some...
