Peace and Security
Cannon Fodder, 21st Century-Style
The White House Almost never frets, About the lies It told to vets. This Memorial Day, I'd like to salute the young people who continue to enlist in our armed forces. Their initial training reinforces their sense that America is beset with many ill-motivated enemies...
The Pentagon’s Assault Guidelines
No Junior Partner
During his recent trip to Latin America, President Barack Obama made a herculean effort to suggest that his administration is forging a new relationship with Mexico and the rest of Latin America based on a partnership of equals. "Just as Mexico is being transformed,...
Middle Eastern Re-Run
Can you hear it? Conservatives are beating their war drums and banging their tambourines, trying to gin up support for U.S. intervention in Syria. Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have been particularly vocal about their...
Our Stake in Guatemala’s Genocide Trial
With Syria's strife, the NRA's annual meeting, and Kim Kardashian's prenatal woes to report, Central America doesn't exactly dominate U.S. headlines these days. So we understand that the octogenarian former dictator standing trial in Guatemala for unspeakable acts of...
The Path We Should Follow after Syria Crosses the Red Line
President Barack Obama's recent announcement that he believes Syria has used a small amount of chemical weapons ignited a debate. Has the Assad regime crossed the "red line" the White House laid down? U.S. intelligence reports "varying degrees of confidence" that...
Obama and the Red Line
Narco-State Building
After 11 years of war, $664 billion spent, 2,210 Americans dead, more than 35,000 of our troops maimed and shattered, and our good reputation spent — what have we built in Afghanistan? According to a top international law enforcement official, you and I are building...
Our Biggest Terrorist Threat
Acts of terror like the ones committed at the Boston Marathon are reprehensible and lack moral or logical explanation. They rock us to our core. They also unite us in common purpose. Victims and their families seem to become our own loved ones. We want to ease their...
Saber-Rattling on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea has a dramatic flair for stringing along the world. Whether it's reactivating a long-dead plutonium reactor in the face of mounting sanctions or forcibly suspending one of the last major cooperative efforts with South Korea, Pyongyang seems intent on a...
