William J. Astore asks: Will America’s Wars Ever End?
May 28, 2017
In late 2009, I wrote the following article for Huff Post under the title, “One Grizzled Veteran’s Dream.” This Memorial Day Weekend, I’d like to remember the dream a veteran shared with me and lots of other high school juniors back in 1980. Sadly, that dream is even more distant today than it was in […]
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Requiem for a Soldier Suicide: Missing Him
May 28, 2017
For Memorial Day, here’s an excerpt from my book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. The name of the deceased has been changed and the exact location of the ceremony obscured out of respect. Private First Class Brian Edward Hutson, in Iraq, put […]
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Veterans On the March: Memorial Day in D.C.
May 26, 2017
Veterans On the March! Stop Endless War • Build for Peace! “War is a racket: A few profit, the many pay!” ~ Major General Smedley Butler, USMC May 29 and 30, 2017 in Washington DC May 29, 2017: Letters to the Vietnam Memorial Wall • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial May 30, 2017: Lincoln Memorial […]
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Ron Paul: Do The Biggest Surveillance States Need More Surveillance Powers?
May 26, 2017
Ron Paul appeared on the Kennedy Show on Fox Business Channel.
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NSA Spying On Americans ‘Widespread’ – Let Sec. 702 Expire!
May 25, 2017
In October, 2016, the NSA was forced to admit that it had misused Sec. 702 of the FISA Amendments to spy on far more Americans than it should have. Even the normally very compliant FISA Court condemned the ramped up spying on Americans as raising serious Fourth Amendment issues. The NSA last month told us […]
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Antiwar.com’s Angela Keaton on the Importance of Delivering the Bad News
May 25, 2017
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Hiroshima and the Scar of Moral Injury
May 25, 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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Congressmembers Speak Out for Getting the US Out of Afghanistan
May 24, 2017
Today a news conference was held by co-sponsors of HR1666, to prohibit funds for activities in Afghanistan, and the importance of debating the 16-year war in Afghanistan, the longest war in America’s history. Attending were Representative Walter B. Jones (R-NC) Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) Representative John Duncan (R-TN) Representative Don Young […]
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Ron Paul asks: Was Manchester Blowback?
May 24, 2017
Western intervention in Libya opened the country up to radical Islamist gangs which had been suppressed under Gaddafi. Just as Gaddafi warned. Same in Syria, where western destabilization efforts have led to an al-Qaeda and ISIS presence that was not there before the west had decided on “regime change” for the secular Assad. Who benefitted […]
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William Astore on America’s ‘Beautiful’ Weapons
May 23, 2017
President Trump is hawking weapons in the Middle East. After concluding a deal with the Saudis for $110 billion in weaponry, he sought out the Emir of Qatar and said their discussions would focus on “the purchase of lots of beautiful military equipment.” Trump’s reference to American weapons as “beautiful” echoed the recent words of […]
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