Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War

10 November 2003 A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS  This year we celebrate the 228th anniversary of the founding of our Corps. As always, it is an occasion for remembrance, proud...

BBC News on US raises spectre of conscription: The American defence department has begun a recruitment drive for local draft boards, raising questions about a possible revival of conscription. A notice on a department...

Dr. Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Is Iraq Another Vietnam? As the insurgency in Iraq gets bolder, more sophisticated and more deadly, the hawks are falling all over themselves to pooh-pooh comparisons...

Dr. Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Cut Losses: Leave Iraq The brazen missile attack on the Rashid hotel in Baghdad and a recent spate of suicide bombings illustrate that anti-American violence is...

Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute on Having a Bad Day, Wolfie? After a rocket attack on the Rashid hotel in Baghdad landed only one floor away from a clearly shaken Deputy Secretary of...

Amy Kaplan on Confusing Occupation With Liberation: "Why, we have gotten into a mess, a quagmire from which each fresh step renders the difficulty of extrication immensely greater. I'm sure I wish I could...

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times – On Listening: There was a headline that grabbed me in The Times on Saturday. It said, "Cheney Lashes Out at Critics of Policy on Iraq." "Wow,"...

Associated Press on Young boys rescued from slave-like labor: Their bodies scarred by beatings and their hands callused from breaking rocks, 74 boys as young as 4 received medical treatment this week after their...

Jefferson at HotLiberty.com takes on chickenhawk Ben Shapiro in this excellent post and basically challenges him to enlist or shut up. Shapiro, like most of the more vocal Iraq war hawks, has never worn...