A ‘Blob’ By Any Other Name
September 21, 2021
Last week, The New York Times published an article about Afghanistan and the foreign policy “Blob,” and it was written in a way that mocked the term and the critics that use it. The funny thing is that the article reproduced exactly the sort of groupthink and hostility to outside criticism implied by the “Blob” […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Matthew Hoh Names the Reps. Most Responsible for the Afghan War Disaster
September 20, 2021
On COI #163, Matthew Hoh joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Hundreds of members of Congress helped to keep the conflict going, but Matt names some of the worst offenders. He shares personal stories about reps who used their support for the war to build political capital needed to pass […]
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House Votes This Week on Selective Service
September 19, 2021
Key votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on proposals to repeal (unlikely), expand to women (most likely), or eliminate some of the penalties for violations of the Military Selective Service Act will take place this week as part of the debate on this year’s annual National Defense [sic] Authorization Act (NDAA). Here’s a calendar […]
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Why We Oppose the National Defense Authorization Act
September 18, 2021
The moment of ending a war widely viewed as a 20-year catastrophe, having spent $21 trillion on militarism during those 20 years, and the moment when the biggest Congressional question in the media is whether the United States can afford $3.5 trillion over 10 years for things other than wars, is hardly the moment to […]
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Why Should We Be Celebrating a Year of Abraham Accords?
September 17, 2021
Reprinted with permission from Responsible Statecraft: A year into the Abraham Accords, it is clear that the agreement has only delivered arms sales, but no peace. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to deteriorate, de facto annexation of Palestinian territory proceeds all the while the U.S. embrace of the agreement signals American endorsement of this negative status quo. […]
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We Need a National Rite of Passage That Doesn’t Include War
September 17, 2021
A recent New York Timesop-ed was perhaps the strangest, most awkward and tentative defense of the military-industrial complex – excuse me, the experiment in democracy called America – I’ve ever encountered, and begs to be addressed. The writer, Andrew Exum, was an Army Ranger who had deployments in the early 2000s to both Iraq and […]
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Conflicts of Interest: The Pentagon Used Movies, Media, & the NFL to Sell War
September 16, 2021
On COI #162, Scott Spaulding – an Iraq and Afghan combat vet who hosts the ‘Why I’m Antiwar’ podcast – returns to the show to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Scott explains how American culture was infected with bloodlust by the Pentagon’s post-9/11 PR campaign, while the State Department partnered with Hollywood, the […]
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Looking for Responsible Realism on China
September 16, 2021
Ross Douthat sums up the thesis of Elbridge Colby’s book, Strategy of Denial: Only China threatens American interests in a profound way, through a consolidation of economic power in Asia that imperils our prosperity and a military defeat that could shatter our alliance system. Therefore American policy should be organized to deny Beijing regional hegemony […]
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A Dangerous Fixation on Denuclearization
September 14, 2021
A new Chicago Council survey finds that the public is overwhelmingly in favor of negotiating a peace agreement with North Korea, but only if North Korea disarms: For example, 76 percent of Americans support negotiating a formal peace agreement with North Korea to officially end the Korean War if North Korea suspends its nuclear weapons […]
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Kyle Anzalone’s Speech at the End the Damn Wars Rally in Denver
September 13, 2021
Antiwar.com opinion editor Kyle Anzalone gave this great speech at the End the Damn Wars rally in Denver on September 11.
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