President Obama's tale of Osama bin Laden's death was very much a comic book style rambling narrative of fantasy and wonder, with many of the details retracted within hours of the telling. Another comic book version of the killing is coming out, though this time in...
Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is performing a political move to make a name for himself by giving a speech deriding Obama's response to the Arab Spring. The speech is "being billed as a major foreign policy address" from the very guy who has trouble...
The violence the government has been unleashing on the Syrian people unfortunately continues, with Syrian troops Monday reaching towns near the Lebanon border "guns echo[ing]" and "claiming to look for terrorist groups." But Monday also saw more than 150 Syrian...
Hagit Borer, an Israeli American, explained in yesterdays Los Angeles Times that his reasons for participating in the aid flotilla headed for Gaza go beyond, as Glenn Greenwald described, "a theatrical, non-threatening form of peaceful protest against the blockade,"...
The rhetoric used to marginalize dissenting opinion and coddle the herd into unity conformity is the same in Libya as it has been in other recent wars. I see two main tactics. The first is the attempt to detract attention and emphasis away from any potential domestic...
I'm waiting for Obama's announcement of the new policy of troop levels in Afghanistan to become old news by about Monday, but while it's still the weekend, let's consider further exactly how many people we've got in that country smaller than Texas. From a...
As has been reported and discussed at length here at Antiwar.com, the national security establishment, in conjunction with the Obama administration and surely whatever succeeds it, is planning on an essentially permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Secret...
Today the US House defeated two resolutions on the war on Libya. The first one, to authorize Obama to conduct the war for a year, failed overwhelmingly. The second one, sold as a war limitation measure, actually authorized most of the activities currently being waged...
This week's news of a resolution from senior Senators to permit military operations in Libya for one year was met with muddled reaction in Congress. The splits within both parties have been preventing clear assertions or definitive action going forward. Today's WSJ...
News yesterday that Israel is finally allowing building materials into Gaza, which has been deprived of them since Operation Cast Lead reduced much the infrastructure to rubble, was good to hear, but I'm still left slightly skeptical. First of all, it's limited:...
