Then why do you want to lob cruise missiles, Senator? Senator John McCain is making the rounds on national television today to make the case for attacking Syria’s government and involving the United States in another war in the Middle East. Appearing on “Today” he claimed he wouldn’t support the Syrian war resolution if he…
Allah Akbar! Senator John McCain appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss the brewing conflict with Syria after being challenged over US involvement. McCain was shown a clip of a FSA fighter screaming “Allah Akbar” and asked why we should support them. He countered that shouting Allah Akbar was the same as Christians…
Nick Gillespie and Ben Swann have excellent recent videos out explaining the reasons we need to be careful before entering into another no-win war in the Middle East. Gillespie details three reasons why the US should stay out and Swann does a breakdown of the factions involved in the conflict. Ben Swann’s video is an…
Let’s not police the world! Representative Alan Grayson weighed in on the crisis in Syria and the upcoming draft resolution that would authorize the president to order a military strike. French President Hollande has committed to action if the United States goes to war, despite the UK parliament backing out of any planned hostilities. The…
“What if Assad didn’t order this? What if this wasn’t a Syrian troop chemical attack? What if this was perpetrated by al Qaeda affiliated oppositionists?” Hillary Mann Leverett is a Senior Adjunct Professor at American University specializing in politics and international relations of the Muslim world. She joined a panel on MSNBC to discuss the ongoing Syrian crisis…
“In their short existence, they have never met a war they didn’t like.” Leather-jacketed libertarian Nick Gillespie appeared sans jacket on C-SPAN to discuss foreign policy in regards to the ongoing crisis in Syria. He had harsh words for Neocons Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer‘s foreign policy prescriptions. In this interview, Gillespie makes the case…
Senator Marco Rubio took to the Sunday shows to wish everyone a happy Father’s Day and to express his desire to see their sons & daughters taxed and possibly killed to support al-Qaeda backed Syrian Rebels. His flatly interventionist stance in this interview betrays his true ideology of Wilsonian democracy and the belief that America’s…
What could possibly go wrong? Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham rang a familiar tone about chemical weapons on the floor of the Upper House Thursday when they called for America to back Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad. McCain and Graham called for a no-fly zone and to destroy al-Assad’s planes…
War! What is it good for? Via LearnLiberty: Most wars seem to create costs that far outweigh their benefits, but is war ever justified? In this Learn Liberty debate, Prof. Bryan Caplan and Prof. Jan Ting disagree. Prof. Caplan argues that pacifism should be U.S. policy as the costs and benefits of war are too…