Seems like President Barack Obama -- Nobel Peace Laureate Obama -- has taken his predecessor's predator drone program and jacked it up with steroids. The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reports this week that the number of Obama-authorized strikes in Pakistan equals the sum...
When I was researching my recent piece on Taliban extortion rackets in Afghanistan, it was easy to find examples of the Taliban extorting private contractors hired by western governments and companies engaged in humanitarian and reconstruction projects. What was...
“There’s a resistance saying that armed ground robots are not ready for the battlefield. I’m not of that camp,†- Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch Perhaps underscoring the old adage that "to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail," Lieutenant General Rick Lynch,...
One of the most notable developments surrounding the debate about the Nobel Committee’s decision to award Obama its peace prize has been the apparently spontaneous agreement by both Tom Friedman and Liz Cheney that the president should make the occasion a...
I've been thinking a lot about this Obama - Nobel Peace Prize business today, actually I've been trying to ignore it but I've run into several people today who think it's a great idea and going to spur Obama to do something good... or at the very least spur him to not...
So many promoters of war have won the Nobel Peace Prize in recent history: Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, to name a few. But Alfred Nobel's will, where he laid out the requirements for winning the Peace Prize, were anything but moderate. Nobel...
Obama, Kissinger, Wilson, Roosevelt and Moniz. Quick. What do Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger and Egar Moniz have in common? All won the Nobel Prize, the first four for “peace†either as sitting presidents, or in Kissinger’s...
Appropriately, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar "Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009" and the International Olympic Committee made its much anticipated decision just as the baseball season drew to a close.Yep, the Windy City's National League franchise...
From the Students for a Democratic Society Antiwar Working Group: Demonstrations mark 8th anniversary of Afghan War–demand immediate U.S./NATO withdrawal Students on 25 campuses across the United States will protest eight long years of war against and occupation of...
The Washington Post article on this weekend's attack on a remote US military base in Afghanistan notes: It is really hard to interdict the enemy," said the base's company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. "There are literally...
