Charles Anderson served in Iraq, but he doesn't want to be thanked. I did nothing in Iraq I consider honorable. I was a scared kid riding into a battle I didn't understand. Our convoys streamed past thousands of starving children and people needing medical attention. Our tanks fired into villages…
Take a look at this Ellis Weiner post on Huffpo. His main point? He claims that something has been long overlooked, despite its current obviousness: The reason Americans think the Democratic Party is "weak on terror" or "weak on security" is because Democrats don't stand up to Republicans. Could anything…
This article by John Kerry, published today by the Wall Street Journal, is right on target. Current U.S policy toward Afhanistan is grossly negligent and dangerous, as we've previously argued at this site.
According to a National Intelligence Estimate completed in April the U.S. occupation of Iraq is the leading inspiration for new Islamic extremist networks and cells that are united by little more than an anti-Western agenda. Rather than contributing to eventual victory in the global counterterrorism struggle, it concludes that the…
According to the website of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 “left the Russian Federation with the bulk of the massive Soviet weapons of mass destruction complex.†The U.S. is about to start consciously disregarding this immense threat, however. The September 15, 2006…