Peter Van Buren Says: Sorry, No War in North Korea
August 9, 2017
I’m so sorry to disappoint so many people, but there is not going to be a war with North Korea. No, no, Trump is not going to start a war there. And, no, Kim Jong Un is not going to start a war there. It is not going to happen, despite a cottage industry of […]
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Rep. Walter Jones’ Tireless Effort to End the Afghanistan War
August 8, 2017
United States House of Representatives Member Walter Jones (R-NC) has for years ardently advocated terminating US involvement in the Afghanistan War. Jones’ efforts in this regard include his legislation introduced in the House, letters to US presidents and congressional leaders, interviews, and House floor speeches. What often most surprises people is that this prominent proponent […]
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Ron Paul Says War Drums Beating: North Korea Tops the List
August 8, 2017
Last weekend’s UN Security Council Resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea for testing missiles opens the door to a US pre-emptive strike on the country. Russia and China foolishly went along with the US and voted for more sanctions thinking that it would open the door to diplomacy. It won’t. That’s the last thing Washington’s […]
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Peter Van Buren on Morality, Expediency, and Hiroshima
August 8, 2017
August 6 usually doesn’t make headlines in America. But mark the day by what absence demonstrates: on the 72nd anniversary of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and some 140,000 noncombatants, there is no call for reflection in the United States. In an era where pundits routinely worry about America’s loss of moral standing because of […]
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The Antiwar Conservatives: Ron Paul Interviews Rep. John Duncan, Jr.
August 7, 2017
What is it like to vote against war in a conservative Congressional district? Rep. John Duncan (R-TN) found out that you can vote your conscience, explain it to your constituents, and continue to get elected. And educate conservatives about war in the process. Rep. Duncan is the last remaining Republican in the US House who […]
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Hiroshima and the Scar of Moral Injury
August 7, 2017
For military historians, walking a battlefield is a special experience. That’s where things previously locked away in books happened, the hill that blocked an advance, the river that defended an important city and altered the course of human history. Historians visit Waterloo, Gettysburg, and Normandy all the time. Things work differently for those interested in […]
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August 6: The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
August 6, 2017
There is a lot to say about this day, when 72 years ago, the United States became the first and only nation to use nuclear weapons. So much is said every day about Iran and nuclear weapons, and terrorists and nuclear weapons, Putin with nuclear weapons and so forth, but that one fact remains among […]
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Truman, A-Bombs, and the Killing of Innocents
August 6, 2017
Today marks the 72nd anniversary of U.S. President Harry Truman’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. The atomic bombing of Nagasaki took place three days later in 1945. Some 90,000-166,000 individuals were killed in Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bombing killed 39,000-80,000 human beings. (It has come to my attention that the US military bombed Tokyoon Aug. 14 – […]
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Hope this Hiroshima Day
August 6, 2017
Finally, 72 years after the US dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and three days later on Nagasaki, there is hope that we will see the abolition of these most deadly weapons of mass destruction, for this year on July 7 an historic treaty banning nuclear weapons like every other weapon of mass destruction […]
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Ron Paul: We’re Losing Afghanistan. Can We Win?
August 3, 2017
President Trump summoned his generals and experts to the “situation room” at the White House late last month. He was furious that there was no plan to win Afghanistan and that after 16 years we were, in his words, “losing” in Afghanistan. What can be done? Some told him to send in many more troops. […]
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