750 Vets Write The President
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,...
Tagged: Foreign Policy & Military & War
228th Birthday Message from the Commandant of the Marine Corps
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...
Draft Boards???!!
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...
More on Iraq From Dr. Eland
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...
Time To Go
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...
Feeling Unsafely Secure
Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute on The Pretense of Airport Security College student Nathaniel Heatwole’s recent, highly publicized hijinks in deliberately and successfully flouting airline-security rules illustrate once more the realities of the...
Cake Walking
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...
Revisionist History
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...
Shut Up Already!
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,"...
Where is the outrage?
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...