By: Stephen Wertheim
Despite the growth of the Executive Branch over the past seventy years, the U.S. Constitution still states that only Congress has the power to declare war. To course correct American foreign policy we must return this authority to the people's elected representatives.... read more
Aug
By: Will Bardenwerper
As we look back on twenty years of poor leadership in Afghanistan and our other endless wars, how do we hold leaders accountable to their errors? Will anyone be punished?... read more
Aug
By: Jim Lobe
CBS, ABC, and NBC are responsible for a major dereliction of duty, only covering the war in Afghanistan for a total of five minutes in the entire year of 2020.... read more
Aug
By: Scott Shackford
For thirteen years one government agency, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has been entirely truthful about the disaster of nation-building and the failures of the war in Afghanistan.... read more
Aug
By: Matt Taibbi
Afghanistan is one example of larger phenominon, where the U.S. government repeatedly makes the same mistakes when attempting to wrestle with foreign problems.... read more
Aug
By: Daniel McCarthy
Our foreign policy of endless war is encased in a maze of Potemkin villages and cardboard obstacles. To forge an America First foreign policy we must be willing to tear down the deceptions.... read more
Aug
By: Daniel L. Davis
How does a 300,000 man army crumble in a matter of weeks after twenty years of training? Ret. Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis explains the rampant corruption that U.S. military planners have been aware of the whole time.... read more
Aug
By: Dave DeCamp
When asked at a recent press conference, President Joe Biden made clear he has no regrets about deciding to withdraw from the war in Afghanistan.... read more
Aug
By: Gil Barndollar
As the military withdrawal from Afghanistan is completed, does President Biden have any intention of ending the rest of the Global War on Terror?... read more
Aug
By: Michael A. Cohen
American failure in Afghanistan is not the responsability of a lone public official or just one political party. It is representative of a failure of the system, and our foreign policy of endless war.... read more
Aug
By: Bonnie Kristian
When the War Party insists the war in Afghanistan could have been successful with a little more time, money, or lives lost, they're missing the point — the war was unwinnable.... read more
Aug
By: Catie Edmondson
Sen. Josh Hawley and other Republicans of recent vintage want to put America First, repeal outdated and unconstitutional AUMFs, and bring our troops home from these endless wars in the Middle East.... read more
Aug
By: Daniel L. Davis
Keeping 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq does not benefit American security, but puts them in striking range of Iran. ... read more
Aug
By: Michael Keller
The failure of the war in Afghanistan is a continuation of the American habit of engaging in endless wars post-World War II.... read more
Aug
By: Barbara Starr
John Sopko, Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, gives his final lessons about the abysmal U.S. performance at nation-building as American troops withdrawal from Afghanistan.... read more
Jul
