In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
Scott Horton Presentation: The War on Terror: A Global Catastrophe
Wednesday, February 7th Antiwar.com opinion editor Scott Horton will be giving a presentation for historian Thaddeus Russell's Renegade University about the War on Terrorism. Sign up now!
Iraq: This is what it looks like when you rip off the Band Aid
As of July 1st, there have been 1,405 people killed in Iraq, mostly civilians. That number is likely to change by the time you read this -- just yesterday, 45 people died as a result of numerous terror attacks across the country. One bomb had been planted near a cafe,...
CNAS National Security Hive on Syria: “Meh”
President Obama is expected to make an announcement this week on whether his administration will begin arming the Syrian rebels in their suddenly uncertain effort to topple the autocratic regime of Bashar Assad. All signs point to a lifting of the White House...
Military Sex Assault Stories Overwhelm Today’s News
The sex assault problem in the military is turning out to be a poison that has infected every branch, and it just seems to be getting worse as more women enlist and rise through the ranks. Just when military women were celebrating the successful storming of the...
What Would Richard Holbrooke Say?
Yesterday would have been uber-diplomat Richard Holbrooke's 72nd birthday. He died December 13, 2010 while on the job as our top envoy to Afghanistan, and one can't help thinking that whatever 1960's idealism still existed in terms of making that country a better...
Finally: Mainstream Compares COIN to Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a decisive defeat for the Emperor Napoleon: his losses forced his abdication, restored King Louis XVIII to France's throne, and sent the former emperor away for the rest of his days in exile on the isle of Saint Helena. In other words, it...
The Truth about Sequestration
The Pentagon will not wither and crumble according to Cato's Christopher Preble, Benjamin Friedman and Dan Mitchell.
“Let Justice Flow Like a River…”
Resisting Drone in Missouri by Brian Terrell, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence The United States District Courthouse in Jefferson City, Missouri, is a modern and graceful structure sitting on a bluff over the Missouri River. Less than one year old, it...
Old man with long beard apparently murdered in Abbottabad, Pakistan
OK, this is the first anniversary of the U.S. apparently killing someone with a long beard in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The new spin is that Mr. Obama, making a "gutsy call," took the high-risk course of sending in "boots on the ground" rather than...
