No one ever went broke betting on the hypocrisy of congressional Republicans.

For seven years, they blustered about how Democrats had failed to "support the troops in the field" by voting against appropriations to fund the war in Iraq. Now, almost all House Republicans have themselves voted against funding the...

A Dual Track Strategy to Secure America's Interests in Afghanistan
By Scott Payne and Peter O'Brien

Numbers are antiseptic in war - it is anecdotes that tell the story. In Afghanistan, one vital part of that story is the brutality and depravity of our enemy. In a recent opinion...

This is an Op-ed published in the Detroit Free Press on March 9, 2009 by Scott Payne and Aaron Bailey

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama and John McCain didn't agree on much, but they did see eye-to-eye on one thing: the U.S. need for a big troop increase...

In the fall of 2004, a video hit the airwaves that brought back America's fear of terrorism and helped seal John Kerry's fate. No, not the Oct. 29th video released by Osama bin Laden. That hurt Kerry, but the thing that probably put George W. Bush back in the White...