|
||
We're paying to send American troops to Afghanistan and we're also paying Afghans insurgents who will see to it that those troops come back in caskets: a crazed, pointless machinery of death.
ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...
AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media
It's been a while since we've checked in on how that whole White House "War on Fox News" was playing out in the trenches, between Fox News's news-gath...
CBS News | Font Size Print E | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more tro...
Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
It's not that DOD is flunking audits. You flunk an audit when you track the money and find it was not spent as intended. DOD cannot track the money; the Department of Defense is unauditable.
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
The Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General is conducting a new investigation into a covert Bush administration Defense Department program that used re...
Allen McDuffee | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.
nytimes.com | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON -- The nation's top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency fina...
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Plan Z is one of those rare strategies that is hatched not from the mind of confused strategic thinkers by from the womb of Americana. What is Plan Z? Buy the bad guys.
Mike Bonifer | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
A character like Stanley McChrystal cannot afford to show vulnerability to his enemies, and by enemies I mean anyone who would prevent The 40,000 from going into production with him as its star.
washingtonpost.com | Carol D. Leonnig | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who h...
Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
The covert Bush administration program that used retired military analysts to generate favorable wartime news coverage may not have been terminated, R...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
John Brown | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The Obama-Biden team announced it would "expand cultural and arts exchanges throughout the world." But these words, despite their honorable intentions, have not resulted in much noticeable action.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Matthew Hoh told Obama exactly what he needs to hear about Afghanistan: that the war is a failed, flawed, no-win war. That it's a sinkhole for billions of tax dollars and a death trap for US troops.
Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...
ABC News | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...
Washington Post | Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
The Pentagon's top military officer oversaw a secret war game this month to evaluate the two primary military options that have been put forward by th...
Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 10.25.2009 | World
Throughout the history of war in this country, fallen soldiers have returned home to be buried, and are then honored by ordinary Americans every Memor...
Wall Street Journal | PETER SPIEGEL and YOCHI DREAZEN | Posted 10.24.2009 | World
The Obama administration is moving toward a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan that would combine elements of both the troop-heavy approach sought by its ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
|
||
Bruce Wilson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics