WaPo quietly acknowledges op-ed author’s defense industry ties
The piece opposed Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal and originally didn’t disclose the author’s financial stake in that view.
The piece opposed Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal and originally didn’t disclose the author’s financial stake in that view.
The sunk cost fallacy has mired the US in endless conflict.
Married to an airman with depression and suicidal ideation since his deployment, this advocate says the war couldn’t end sooner.
The military doesn’t make US foreign policy decisions and there’s a reason for that.
Biden played this well, he said you can either have new weapons or you can have this old war. In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.
The war hawks will no doubt slam the president, but restrainers are coming out in support.
The Michigan freshman and combat veteran says it’s time for Congress to step up and take care of this ‘low hanging fruit.’
The administration is applying greater oversight across the range of military operations. Such oversight does not imply the end of the endless wars.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
As the May 1 deadline to withdraw nears, hawks’ arguments for staying are getting more creative.
According a new report private companies could sue if the U.S. pulled troops out May 1.
The president added that he doesn’t expect US troops to remain there by next year.
One need only to look to Vietnam for how this alternative plays out in the real world.
Middle East scholar addresses questions surrounding U.S. withdrawal and the interests of neighbors in the process.
Rep. Ilhan Omar raised concerns in a hearing this week about whether Biden is legitimizing Trump’s attacks on the ICC.
A leaked letter shows growing frustration with Kabul and a desire to move around the government there to get a peace settlement.
If Biden increases troops, it’ll be more. We should be focused right now on the multiple domestic crises demanding our attention.
These citizen soldiers have made up a big percentage of our fighting forces overseas for last 20 years. Time to bring them home.
‘Like it or not,’ the United States is a superpower, and according to this primacist, the military is key to preserving that order.
The establishmentarians are talking “responsible withdrawal” and “safe havens” again. That only means one thing.
Blowing off the May 1 deadline for withdrawal would be a mistake, but that seems to be where the winds are blowing.