Col. Douglas MacGregor appeared on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch show over the weekend. Judge Napolitano asked him if we should be spending a trillion dollars to import democracy to the Muslim world: "Absolutely not, it's a hopeless endeavor. This is a bottomless...
Michael Hastings Interview Transcript
Scott Horton interviews Michael Hastings June 23, 2010 Scott Horton: All right, everybody, we're joined on the phone by Michael Hastings, freelance reporter, friend of the show, and he is the author of the article that's turned Washington D.C. upside down this week,...
Afghanistan bottom-line
"The entire COIN strategy [the COunterINsurgency strategy engineered by Petraeus and McCrystal et.al.] is a fraud perpetuated on the American people," says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with...
A More Honest Afghan Policy
Good riddance to McChrystal. His role in the coverup of the killing of Pat Tillman alone was enough to qualify him for the Pentagon Rogues Gallery of the new Millennium. Petreaus is better than McChrystal because at least we get to sometimes watch him get overwhelmed...
Stan the Man and the people who own the war
UPDATE: So President Obama has decided the only way to resolve the Rolling Stone fiasco — which is really a COIN fiasco – is to put Big Daddy COIN in command. Anyone else feel like we’re on Ozzy’s Crazy Train? There were two major themes that I took away from...
GIYUS Targets Christian Science Monitor Message Board
Last week I wrote about GIYUS — the “online public diplomacy platform of Israel†as the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Word document) describes it—and the powerful role it can play in shaping the results of online polls and changing the direction of...
Missing Doc Prather
We get email all the time asking what ever happened to our regular contributor Gordon Prather, former nuclear weapons scientist and master debunker of war party lies. Well, Doc Prather had a minor stroke some months ago, and though he is doing great at his...
Tom Engelhardt on Democracy Now!
Amy and Juan interview the great Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch.com and author of the brand new book The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's.
He NAILS it!
Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
Justin Raimondo on Bill Meyer Show
Antiwar.com's Editorial Director Justin Raimondo will be interviewed on the Bill Meyer Show Friday, June 18th at 8:10am Pacific/11:10am Eastern, for KMED, Medford, OR. The topic will be Mr. Raimondo's recent column, Afghan Bling, regarding the curiously timed...
