Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory and go home. Roundly ignored at the time, it’s a plan worth considering again today for a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan now in its tenth year.
The SEAL who killed bin Laden, justified or not, may have deprived the world of a font of information about terrorism.
President Obama would have achieved more concrete results internationally by taking out Netanyahu politically than by eliminating Bin Laden physically.
Why the haste to kill Osama bin Laden when we might better have been served by his capture?
The grievances expressed in bin Laden’s manifestoes, such as U.S. military presence in the Middle East and support for Israel, will be enough to replenish the ranks of Al-Qaeda and like-minded groups as long as the United States continues to pursue those policies.
Both the U.S. and Japan suffer at the hands of government officials looking forward to jobs in the private sector.
It’s becoming more and more difficult to dispute that jihadists see a window of opportunity in the Libyan civil war.
Conservative proponents of nuclear energy need to acknowledge that it wouldn’t exist were it not for government hand-outs.
The United States imprisoned juveniles at Guantanamo Bay who were kidnapped.
On March 3 of this year, Agent John Dodson of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) blew the whistle on a secret government project that allowed guns to be smuggled from U.S. merchants to Mexican drug cartels.