Obama spent several minutes this afternoon droning on and stuttering about the economy, injecting words like "folks" and "busted" into his typically boring speech as recommended by his handlers to get the plebes to relate more to His Harvardness. Among the many things...
Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies conducted research on the costs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: The final bill will run up to at least $3.7 trillion and could reach as high as $4.4 trillion, according to the research...
State Department legal advisor Harold Koh is turning out to be the Obama administration's John Yoo. He spoke at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday to explain his ridiculous interpretation of the War Power Resolution which Obama favored over the...
President Obama's tale of Osama bin Laden's death was very much a comic book style rambling narrative of fantasy and wonder, with many of the details retracted within hours of the telling. Another comic book version of the killing is coming out, though this time in...
Republican Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is performing a political move to make a name for himself by giving a speech deriding Obama's response to the Arab Spring. The speech is "being billed as a major foreign policy address" from the very guy who has trouble...
The violence the government has been unleashing on the Syrian people unfortunately continues, with Syrian troops Monday reaching towns near the Lebanon border "guns echo[ing]" and "claiming to look for terrorist groups." But Monday also saw more than 150 Syrian...
Hagit Borer, an Israeli American, explained in yesterdays Los Angeles Times that his reasons for participating in the aid flotilla headed for Gaza go beyond, as Glenn Greenwald described, "a theatrical, non-threatening form of peaceful protest against the blockade,"...
The rhetoric used to marginalize dissenting opinion and coddle the herd into unity conformity is the same in Libya as it has been in other recent wars. I see two main tactics. The first is the attempt to detract attention and emphasis away from any potential domestic...
I'm waiting for Obama's announcement of the new policy of troop levels in Afghanistan to become old news by about Monday, but while it's still the weekend, let's consider further exactly how many people we've got in that country smaller than Texas. From a...
As has been reported and discussed at length here at Antiwar.com, the national security establishment, in conjunction with the Obama administration and surely whatever succeeds it, is planning on an essentially permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Secret...
