Defense Spending

The past couple of decades have been disheartening with respect to the politicization of defense policy. In 1992, then-Governor Clinton pledged to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military. Regardless of the substance of the issue, it was inappropriate to seek to make political gains from...

Let's look dispassionately, if we can, at exactly what this man is saying.

He says the U.S. military has killed millions of people in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and in this hemisphere since the end of World War II. Isn't that a verifiable fact? Were any of these peoples...

Granted that a nation of 200 million people of diverse backgrounds does not readily arrive at a wise consensus, it nevertheless is reckless for any administration to treat the members of Congress as dupes to be fed false information in order to gain their acquiescence. The degree to which the...

Her main point is that despite suggesting editorially...

In the past 24 hours, Dick Cheney has been in Baghdad, calling the Iraq War a "successful endeavor." John McCain's there too, and actually uttered those four magic words, "the surge is working," which only differs from Cheney's analysis in the scary possibility that McCain might actually believe it. Then...

That seems to be our national strategy these days.

I'm going to start an internet campaign of putting the words "defense budget" in quotations because -- according to my unscientific survey out around the country -- Americans are feeling pretty uneasy about their security and our leadership priorities. In other...

On December 28th, President Bush announced his plan to veto the defense authorization bill over an obscure provision regarding the new Iraqi government and the rights of prisoners of war. The White House is worried that Americans victimized by Saddam's former regime might use the legislation to secure compensation in...

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Today's talk of a new mission for the Department of State in the wake of Iraq is an important discussion that comes a decade too late. At the end of the Cold War, when internal conflicts were raging around the world, the State Department was unable to cope with...

Based on my analysis, America should commit to spend a minimum, a minimum of 4% of gross domestic product on our national defense.

- Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney celebrated Veterans Day -- the solemn anniversary of the end of the war that was supposed to end all wars -- at...

It would appear that the lamest of the lame duckedness at the end of any President's second term is already creeping into the White House's official pronouncements.

President Bush yesterday phoned in a "presidential signing statement," one of the acts by which the president claims he can ignore...

Let's be very clear. A vicious and premeditated class warfare is being waged today against the American middle class. Poverty is increasing and tens of millions are working longer hours for lower wages. Meanwhile, the richest people have not had it so good since the 1920s, and the gap between...

Nearly five years after the initial invasion of Iraq, our outstanding military is battle-tested, but stretched thin and war-weary. Bush and Cheney threw our troops into the fire. Now from that fire we must forge something stronger and more adaptable to the new and very real dangers we face.

That...