State doctrine holds that soldiers are intrinsically honorable. It is a conviction held by most of the public that those who wear a military uniform are to receive automatic society-wide praise for their service, irrespective of who they are or what they've done. If...
Something like 600,000 civilians were killed in America's 11-year secret bombing campaign in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. From 1964 - 1975, the U.S. rained giant explosives from the sky, destroying the country and leading to the terrible Khmer Rouge, an...
Dear Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Officials: We might have just helped you bag another material supporter of terrorism this week! And you'll never believe who the culprit is! We were even able to tape record some of his own damning admissions!...
The State Department is moving to fire Peter Van Buren, who we have profiled extensively as the man who exposed the fatal weaknesses in our so-called counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and who has been an ardent critic of the U.S war and diplomatic policies in both...
Yesterday (3/14) NPR’s “All Things Considered” ran a “discussion” about Syria and the U.S. All options were not on the table – at least not the anti-interventionist option. Melissa Block hosted three guests seriatim: the aptly named Anne-Marie Slaughter, former...
Austin Petersen, former associate producer of the sadly defunct Freedom Watch, addresses alternatives to humanitarian intervention through the Constitution.
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and more than 70 wounded in Israel's latest set of airstrikes in Gaza. The vast majority of these casualties have been civilians. By contrast, three Israeli civilians have been wounded by rocket fire. In response to this, the...
The scorched corpse this Afghan woman is sitting next to is that of an Afghan boy, her grandson, slaughtered and burned by the U.S. sergeant on Sunday. This is one of 16 civilians killed. See my piece from yesterday on the massacre and the history of letting murderers...
The conflict with Iran is framed as a conflict over nuclear proliferation. So important is it, we are told, that Iran does not get nuclear weapons, that we could risk war and death and suffering and trillions of dollars to prevent it. But the story gets bizarre after...
