The bulk of the US's "counter-terrorism" activity is obviously in Afghanistan-Pakistan and Yemen, what with the ongoing war in Afghanistan and the secret drone war in Pakistan and Yemen. But outside these centers of US aggression, it becomes clear how the 'war on...

In the US foreign policy community, one major legacy of George W. Bush's war in Iraq is that it gave Iraq to the Shiites and thus to Iran. There is some focus on the fact that the administration lied the country into war, and almost none on the fact that this led to...

If one were looking for a way to demonstrate how faithfully the Obama administration had carried on the legacy of the Bush administration, this past week takes the cake, and no, I'm not talking about making Bush tax cuts on the middle class permanent. In a matter of...

The New Years experience tends to generate perspective and long-term thinking. At least, that's the case with two unlikely opinionators: The New York Times and the Taliban. Both the Times and the Taliban have made strong, end of the year historical comparisons between...

Why hasn't the Obama administration intervened militarily in Syria? If you read this site with any regularity, you'll know the answer to that. The great irony is that the major factors that make military intervention in Syria's civil war impractical, unworkable, and...

According to recently released documents, the federal government monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its very inception, internally referring to it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat despite acknowledging the movement's explicit rejection of...

The US government has killed 223 people in Yemen in more than 40 drone strikes in 2012, according to estimates from the Long War Journal. The Long War Journal is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neo-conservative think-tank in Washington, DC...