If things run on schedule, Mr. Obama will announce tomorrow that he and his organization will be sending approximately 34,000 more U.S. troops to harass and sometimes kill men, women and children (as "collateral damage") in Afghanistan. And then he has to sell...
My whole life it seems "gays in the military" has been an issue. Liberal democrats and gay activists have been arguing for years with right-wingers and the military establishment over the issues surrounding the right of homosexuals to fight in the armed forces -- from...
ORZALA ASHRAF: What would you expect from those children who lost their feet or their arm or their mother or their father during that kind of bombing? What would you expect from them? Do you expect them to join the peace process? Do you expect them to say, “I have...
For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began: He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been...
From the New York Times, March 14, 2002: President Bush said today that he ''wouldn't put it past'' President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to have secretly held an American pilot hostage for more than a decade. Speaking at a news conference, Mr. Bush indicated that he did...
Maybe this post by George Hawley, "Solving Non-Interventionism’s Tough-Guy Problem," wasn't directed at Antiwar.com, but I'll address some excerpts from it anyway. In the years since I abandoned my status as a typical neoconservative chicken hawk and adopted Old...
I'm no scholar on Honduras, to say the least, so I'll assume the basic facts regarding recent events are in accord with this opinion piece calling for ousted President Manuel Zelaya's reinstatement: Zelaya's fatal mistake was in organizing a de facto referendum to...
Looking at Margaret and Jason's close monitoring of the continued bloodshed in Iraq-- something like 300 Iraqis dead in bombings since last Monday -- it's becoming clear that nothing short of a nuclear bomb dropped on the Green Zone will get administration...
Of course, any act against the United States government is an act of terrorism. Just read the first graf of this Jeff Stein blog post: He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on...
Steve Clemons and TNR are both reporting a move inside the Obama White House to get rid of National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones. Clemons says the line being pushed is that the man is just plain lazy and a bad manager (which would explain his success in...
