I teach at a middle school on a military installation. This is my second time teaching at this school; my first was just over 10 years ago, before all the deployments.
Nick Mills | Posted 03.03.2012
Every year's glories, catastrophes, triumphs and defeats are added to the long march of history; no year stands alone. One of the common ways to sum up a year is numerically.
Robert Koehler | Posted 12.27.2011
The failure of the Iraq war is the failure of all wars, past and future: national policy grounded in the dehumanization of a people. Iraq Syndrome may be our best hope in thwarting the power of the war consensus.
Sarwar Kashmeri | Posted 12.22.2011
All American troops will come home from Iraq in time for Christmas this year with their heads held high, President Obama told the nation as he announced the end of American presence in Iraq. The troops are the only ones who have earned the right to hold their heads high on this momentous occasion.
Rep. Pete Stark | Posted 12.07.2011
We don't want to commemorate an 11th anniversary in Afghanistan. For both moral and fiscal reasons, the U.S. must change course and set a clear exit strategy to ensure we bring our troops home.
Anthony Gregory | Posted 11.09.2011
As we approach the ten-year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, we are seeing lots of estimates on the costs of America's wars waged in the last decade. Yet most of them miss the big picture.
Don Kraus | Posted 11.09.2011
Ten years later, we know the policies of war have failed. Yet we still allow the fear generated by the horrors of 9/11 and the terrorist acts that followed to silence our better selves.
Robert Naiman | Posted 11.07.2011
Failing to end the wars, and failing to cut the base military budget, and cutting domestic spending instead, will, so long as we have an unemployment problem, make our unemployment problem significantly worse.
Paul Brandeis Raushenbush | Posted 09.06.2011
Within the cacophony emanating from Washington around the debt ceiling, the wars are conspicuously absent. How can this be?
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.29.2011
WASHINGTON -- The United States will have spent a total of $3.7 trillion on wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, costing 225,000 lives and creating...
Posted 08.29.2011
(Reuters) - When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for A...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.27.2011
Forget the debt ceiling. Perhaps we should relocate our debt to Iraq or Afghanistan, where a lot of it is going anyway and where we are at least spending a king's ransom on air conditioning.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.20.2011
We know that it's easier to start a war than to finish one -- and we are seeing a case study of this in Afghanistan despite the fact that there's a clear, widespread, and growing consensus on the value of us getting out.
Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 08.18.2011
On Monday, the United States Conference of Mayors is expected to pass a resolution calling for a speedy end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so we can use those funds here at home. The mayors are exactly right.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- The debate over the constitutionality of U.S. involvement in Libya's civil war has obscured what could be a far harder sale for the pres...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.26.2011
WASHINGTON -- A recent trip to Afghanistan, the death of Osama bin Laden and the toll on U.S. soldiers has convinced Rep. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) that t...
Adam Hochschild | Posted 07.03.2011
Would the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan come to a halt more quickly if we could see hundreds of thousands of tombstones, military and civilian, spreading hill after hill, field after field, across our landscape?
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- As Americans breathe a sigh of relief over finally filing the returns on what they owe (or are owed from) Uncle Sam this Tax Day, the pr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 06.15.2011
WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is unsure whether the war in Afghanistan is going to be a success and says the United States ...
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
If protecting civilians from evil dictators were the goal, there's an easier, safer way than aerial bombardment for the U.S. and its allies to consider: Simply stop arming and propping up evil dictators.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. just started another war. We're good at starting wars. We're not good at ending them, but we start them really well. They say this is for "humanitarian" reasons. But aren't they all?
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Military commanders expect the United States to have a "significant presence" in Afghanistan for another eight to 10 years, according to...
Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011
With our money fueling the insurgency and our killing of civilians driving more people to join the Taliban's side every week, it's little wonder that the insurgency continues to grow in size and sophistication.
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
We see the cost of war, but it doesn't affect -- or prevent -- our decisions. We actually, finally, have to stop making people like the nine children who died, pay it.
Mike Klonsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Another big toll is being extracted from our system of public education in the form of massive school closings and teacher firings amid a cultural assault on teachers and and their unions.
Phyllis Gerben | Posted 04.12.2012