The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options
General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.
General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.
Dan Siegel | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Dear Mr. President: It is stunning to me that a humane and discerning mind like yours is being dragged further into an unnecessary and unwinnable war. Please listen to your inner compass.
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.05.2009 | Impact
Most Americans can't imagine being homeless for 45 hours, let alone 45 years. Steve Sacre, however, a Vietnam veteran and former drug addict, was just...
Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.01.2009 | World
Our leaders evidently never saw a war to which the word "more" didn't apply. Hence the Afghan War, where impending disaster is just an invitation to fuel the flames of an already roaring fire.
Ron Kovic | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Many of us who served in Vietnam promised ourselves long ago that we would never again allow what happened to us in that war to ever happen again. We have an obligation to protest. To speak out.
Norman Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Unless the best and brightest who oversee Afghan war policy can rig up a coalition with the top two contestants, a runoff between Karzai and his rival Abdullah Abdullah will happen November 7.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
Ian Gurvitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
Are we fighting to deny Al Qaeda a base of operations and to keep American safe? This is not a Bond movie. It's not like we can destroy their secret base of operations in time to stop them from bombing the Super Bowl.
Dave Lindorff | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
Missing from a recent Times article on American victims of Agent Orange, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam: the Vietnamese.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
William J. Astore | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
By continuing the war in Afghanistan, Obama will likely ensure himself a one-term presidency, and someday be seen as a man like LBJ whose biggest dreams broke upon the shoals of an unwinnable war.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
A word of caution to the president: The distance between being a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and perilously stuck in a quagmire is a nebulous one. There are no signs posted to inform you when you've arrived at the quagmire.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
The world knows our support of Israel is the cause of terrorism against the United States. But politicians in Washington can't acknowledge this.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.
Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The left-wing filmmaker behind a documentary that questions U.S. policy in Afghanistan says he "took a lot of grief" and lost progressive donors when ...
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.06.2009 | New York
A sensitive, truthful, insightful film about a lawyer who stood at the center of a confrontational movement as it spearheaded a political assault on injustice in America from Vietnam to the Chicago 7.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books
Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
Team Obama needs -- as the International Olympics Committee has just done -- to be continually reminded that the rest of the world is not an American kick ball.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics
Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?
Stanley Kutler | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
The bells of Afghanistan echo the Vietnam War. Like then, we have a powerful military establishment clamoring for an expansive military adventure to protect us from an onrushing enemy.
Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
Do we have the necessary sobriety, humbleness and wisdom in our current times in Washington to weigh appropriately our next moves on Afghanistan?
Tom Gregory | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.
Eric Margolis | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
The American general Stanley McChrystal's news that America risks losing Afghanistan is a bombshell. Washington has spent some $250 billion there since 2001.
Jim Luce | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
The country's landscape is littered with leftover, unexploded ordnance -- still deadly after 34 years. Those farmers who dare till the land often step on landmines in their own fields.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics