Congress is again fighting over the funding of undeclared wars or U.S. proxies (Ukraine, Israel) involved in wars in which the U.S. asserts an interest. The U.S. has been involved in 32 similar-type wars since the Korean War in 1950. The U.S. has been absent from war only 14 of the 73 past years. More…
It’s difficult to characterize the decision-making process of the Biden administration. Nothing makes sense— not Biden fumbling his words reading a teleprompter, the opening of our southern border for all to enter without proof of identity or health status, there is no inflation, the wacky surrender of Afghanistan, constantly changing mask mandates, propaganda telling us…
By Ali Motamedi The withdrawal of all US government personnel from Afghanistan marked the end of what is often considered to be one of the least popular wars in American history and, more importantly, the end of a costly decades long nation-building initiative. While the operation was horrifically botched at the expense of American lives,…
Sebastian Hughes on September 16, 2021 Lieutenant General Thomas Spoehr, who oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the failure to prepare for the “worst case scenario” caused the withdrawal from Afghanistan to be far more chaotic. “We were down to the individual name and I think,…
Fox News TV host Tucker Carlson recently aired a 17-minute segment of moral outrage toward people who want to bring large numbers of Afghan refugees to the United States in the wake of the recent collapse of the Afghan government. The segment is titled, “We are living through the biggest influx of refugees in history,”…
Kendall Tietz on August 25, 2021 Dozens of California students and parents are reportedly stranded in Afghanistan after visiting the country on a summer vacation, the Los Angeles Times reported. At least 24 students and 16 parents from a school district in El Cajon, California, traveled to the country on a summer trip and…
It’s strange how we Americans have routinely accepted that those sending our sons and daughters to seemingly never-ending wars will never be asked to likewise serve in harm’s way. As Major Daniel Sjursen says, the “elites have opted out fully.” In “Patriotic Dissent: America In the Age Of Endless War,” Sjursen writes about never-ending wars,…
The United States began lobbing missiles in Afghanistan in early October of 2001, and boots were on the ground by October 19th. Nineteen years of war means some of the soldiers fighting this never-ending war were not even born when it began. President Trump is currently reducing the number of troops in the country known…
Seemingly lost last week amid coronavirus fears and the senseless murder of George Floyd were reports circulating that President Trump was weighing options to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by November in time for the general election. These reports contradicted the earlier agreement that the Trump administration made with the Taliban in February, which…
“The War Powers Act is unconstitutional.” “Then your favorite president wouldn’t have been able to conduct his foreign policy.” Wow, that went from 0 to Iran-Contra very quickly. It was a discussion between me and my college professor. His reference to my “favorite president” meant Ronald Reagan. Reagan is indeed one of my favorite presidents…