Chris Weigant
Today America memorializes 250 years of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country. Since America is currently at war once again, the question on my mind is how many of these brave Americans died in stupid wars? And which one was the stupidest? Perhaps that's too harsh....
Chris Weigant
There's a certain type of young child who gets that phrase written about him on his early school report cards. The type who has to be the center of everything, all the time. Who always has to be the one who picks what games the other children play. Who, when losing one of those games, angrily...
Michael Neumann
These were all American defeats, but all different. And the defeat in Afghanistan is much more than an American defeat.In Vietnam, America and its Western friends were not alone, and they did not dominate technologically.They did not have air superiority over the North, a crucial rear area for...
Michael Neumann
We hear confident claims that Omar Khadr should have been treated as a child soldier, as if international law imposed some such obligation on the US. It doesn't. The UN convention on the rights of the child binds only its ratifiers. The US (not to mention the Taliban) never ratified the...