Accusations of soft on defense to the contrary, Democratic leadership has seldom met a war it didn’t like.
Since When Haven’t the Democrats Been a War Party?
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“Blasted and Blasted and Blasted”: The Military Traumatic Brain Injury Epidemic
The United States is not facing up to the massive health-care and mental-health problems caused by traumatic brain injuries in our recent wars.
Even Their Beloved Nukes Don’t Escape Republican Infatuation With Cost-Cutting
Between House and Senate Republicans, and those gung-ho for defense and those for cost-cutting, Republicans are diverging on nuclear weapons.
Gen. Kayani’s Tenure as Most Powerful Man in Pakistan Coming to Premature End?
In order to keep his job, Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani may read the riot act to the United States about its drone program.
If We Survive the Next 100 Years, Which Came First: Nuclear Abolition or World Peace?
Is nuclear disarmament possible when the fundamental differences between states seem written in stone?
Webb’s Parting Shots
To get elected to the Senate, you have to meet certain requirements. You have to be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for nine years, and a resident of the state you represent. Based on Jim Webb’s recent performance, I would like to propose a fourth requirement: you have to be a novelist. If we had 100 novelists in the Senate, the body might finally be able, like Webb, to distinguish fact from fiction.
Can Lasting Disarmament Be Achieved Without Peace First?
If we wait for states to get along in order to guarantee disarmament, they might start a nuclear war first.
100% Scared: How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
In terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans, including car crashes which have racked up between 33,800 and 43,500 deaths a year since 2001.
Specter of Not Only 9/11, But the ’93 WTC Bombing, Haunts One World Trade Center
It requires either willfulness or denial for a company to commit its employees to working in a building on a site that was already targeted in two momentous attacks.
Desperately Seeking Vindication: Bin Laden and Torture
Attempts by members of the Bush administration to link bin Laden’s death to intelligence gained through torture reek of desperation.