Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War

The New York Times on When Soldiers Go Without Paychecks: Members of the National Guard and the various military reserves joined up to be part-time civilian soldiers, called up during domestic emergencies and in...

Mike Litwin of the Rocky Mountain News on Gag order leaves troops, reporters speechless: Before the press was herded into the giant hangar in advance of George W. Bush's pep rally/photo op with the...

Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at the Independent Institute on Turning Point" in the War in Iraq: But Which Way Is It Turning?" As Lt. Gen....

Don Williams of New Millenium Writings on Who really supported troops? So just who truly supported the troops? Those who sent them to Iraq with no clear plan for bringing them home again or...

Representative Ron Paul on Mistreating Soldiers and Veterans: Congress recently voted to send $87 billion to Iraq, money that will be used to build everything from roads to power plants to hospitals. Yet while...

Oliver Willis has an interesting post on the "Chickenhawk Debate" over here. Here's the point, and it doesn't take a brain surgeon to get it: the people who are supporting and encouraging a war...

Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks on Defrauded Veterans Have Mixed Emotions on Veterans Day: For Torrance photographer Taron James, a decorated veteran of Operation Northern Watch, Veterans Day always brings mixed emotions. James...

My favorite retired USAF lieutenant colonel, Karen Kwiatkowski of LRC on Of Mice And Men: Justin Raimondo’s precise, clear and accurate description of neoconservativism as "an authoritarian power cult" is both encouraging and exciting....

Military and veterans stories from yesterday's Christian Science Monitor: Gail Russell Chaddock on A new focus on veterans' benefits With the Iraq occupation highlighting the devotion of US troops – and the dangers they...

Over the weekend, along with 749 other veterans, I signed a letter (dated today) to the President regarding active duty and veteran health and benefit issues and the current situation in Iraq. The letter,...