After months of being reluctant to address it, the White House today announced it now believes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in its bloody, two-year civil war. "Our intelligence community does asses with varying degrees of confidence...
The path from Monday to today, which has brought the US to believe Syria's chemical weapons use is unusual. This timeline may help us better get a grip on how (though not why) officials got from A to B. Monday: Chuck Hagel is in Israel speaking with Israeli Defense...
In honor of Bush's library dedication today, here are some more epigrams he inspired from my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: Killing foreigners is no substitute for protecting Americans. Habeas corpus is an insurance policy to prevent governments from going...
Farea al-Muslimi, the Yemeni youth activist and journalist who testified at the Senate Judiciary Hearing this week on the drone war, will be meeting with White House officials to tell them too about how the drone war terrorizes civilians and helps al-Qaeda...
At The Daily Beast, James Kirchick blasts the new Ron Paul Institute for being "comprised of anti-Semites, 9/11 truthers, and dictator lovers." Kirchick goes astray on a number of claims, but at one point he links to a piece by former CIA official Michael Scheuer...
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released a report today that says the Army paid $5 million for two massive incinerators to burn trash on a forward operating base (FOB) in Afghanistan, but then never used them. The incinerators,...
Down in Texas, the George W. Bush Library is having formal opening ceremonies today. In honor of the occasion, here's a few epigrams from my 2004 book, The Bush Betrayal: There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more...
Yesterday would have been uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke's 72nd birthday. He died December 13, 2010 while on the job as our top envoy to Afghanistan, and one can't help thinking that whatever 1960's idealism still existed in terms of making that country a better...
Victor Davis Hanson's latest piece at The National Review can only be described as delusional. Hanson makes the argument that Obama's foreign policy is "neo-isolationist" - whatever that means. Most Republicans are still unable to restrain from hurling the...
The Boston Bombings left three dead and more than 100 injured and some have suggested circumventing the rule of law to prosecute the perpetrator. Yet, in Pakistan the unconstitutional drone war continues to kill innocents. On April 14, between 4 and 6 Pakistanis died...
