Posts tagged military
Rep. Barney Frank: Why We Must Reduce Military Spending
Jul 6th
As members of opposing political parties, we disagree on a number of important issues.
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Loading ...Alexander Zaitchik: Past is Prologue: Glenn Beck’s "Rally for America" Redux
Jul 6th
The following contains an adapted excerpt from the author’s new book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Arianna Huffington: PolitiFact Embraces Equivocation, the Truth Gets Squeezed
Jul 6th
Whenever I speak about the future of media, I get the most positive reaction when I talk about the urgent need to create an online tool that makes it possible to instantly fact-check politicians and commentators as they speak (a bubble pops up, containing the actual facts supporting or contradicting what’s been said). Truth 2.0. That’s why I had such high hopes when it was announced that PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking project of the St.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Patricia DeGennaro: July 4th: Time to Revisit America’s Mission
Jul 5th
As I sit here and write on July 4th, I wonder how all my friends, both civilian and military are faring in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dr. Jill Biden: Celebrating the Fourth of July With Our Troops in Iraq
Jul 5th
Last night, my husband Joe and I flew to Iraq to celebrate the Fourth of July with our troops. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Independence Day than spending it with Americans who are bravely serving our country
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ryan Grady, U.S. Soldier Killed In Afghanistan, Returning To Dover Air Force Base July Fourth
Jul 5th
Pfc. Ryan J. Grady, 25, formerly of Bristow, was killed Thursday when an improvised explosive device hit the military vehicle he was in near Bagram airfield in Afghanistan, the Defense Department said Saturday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ron Paul Praises Embattled RNC Chief Michael Steele For ‘Leadership’ On Afghanistan
Jul 5th
The Sunday shows on this July Fourth weekend were littered with conservative figures wringing their hands over the latest, confounding comments from RNC Chairman Michael Steele, who recently called Afghanistan an un-winnable war of Obama’s choosing. But with neoconservatives Bill Kristol and Dan Senor as well as Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) all, to one extent or another, taking Steele to the mat , at least one member of the GOP was praising his boldness and clarity. Rep
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...David Bromwich: A Free Republic and its Limits
Jul 3rd
“Things are in the saddle,/ And ride mankind.” The words were written by Emerson in a poem about the Mexican war–the first crisis that took America out of itself. The second such crisis was the Spanish-American war, and we are now in the middle of the third
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Amb. Marc Ginsberg: Kandahar and "Counter-Insurgency-in-a-Box"
Jul 3rd
This 4th of July weekend, war weary Americans are being force-fed more foreboding Afghan geography, just as they were force-fed Iraqi geography. “Marja,” “Helmund,” and now “Kandahar.” These names of the Taliban’s birthplace and heartland mean little to most Americans, but everything to the thousands of U.S. soldiers deployed in southern Afghanistan, and their families back in the U.S
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steve Clemons: Defending Michael Steele from War-Hungry RNC Members & Pentagon-Hugging Dems
Jul 3rd
Michael Steele is right on Afghanistan. The Republican National Committee Chairman, who is receiving a heap of scorn by war-hungry members of his party and by Democrats who want to puff up and act like the real defenders of the Pentagon faith, called the conflict in Afghanistan “a war of Obama’s choosing.” Former George W.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christine Pelosi: On July 4th, Avoid the Steele Trap: Separate the War from the Warriors
Jul 3rd
Republican Michael Steele’s advice for federal candidates – paint Afghanistan as a war of Obama’s choosing that the US hasn’t prosecuted and cannot be won – is the worst Independence Day message I can imagine. Indeed, mere seconds after posting a link to Steele’s remarks this morning, I heard from veterans steamed at the statement http://bit.ly/bFRzrl that Afghanistan “is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” These veterans are justifiably outraged: with over 1000 troops killed, over tens of thousands injured, some of them permanently, and over a million military families affected by deployments, what in the world has the United States done if not actively prosecuted the war in Afghanistan?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Josh Mull: What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?
Jul 3rd
I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chris Weigant: The Forgotten Battle Which Won The American Revolution
Jul 3rd
[ Program Note: Our usual Friday Talking Points column is going on a one-week hiatus, so that we are able to present a special offering today, for the Independence Day weekend.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Kevin Zeese: To Fix America’s Fiscal Crisis Go to those Who Profited from Deficit Spending and Look at It’s Real Causes
Jul 2nd
The United States can be fiscally responsible and meet the urgent necessities of the American people by stopping corporate welfare to concentrated industries, taxing the wealthiest that profited from three decades of tax breaks and reigning in weapons and war spending. Expanding Medicare to cover all Americans will save money and improve health. And, Social Security is essential to most Americans and is a contract between the government and the people that should not be broken.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michael Steele Says Afghanistan Was ‘War Of Obama’s Choosing,’ Not Something The U.S. ‘Wanted To Engage In’ (VIDEO)
Jul 2nd
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele expressed an unusual interpretation of the relationship between Barack Obama and the war in Afghanistan at a Connecticut fundraiser Thursday. “This was a war of Obama’s choosing,” Michael Steele said at the event. “This is not something the United States has actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in.” Steele also accused Obama of “demonizing Iraq while saying the battle really should be in Afghanistan.” “Well, if he’s such a student of history, has he not understood that, you know, that’s the one thing you don’t do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan, alright, because everyone who’s tried over a thousand years of history has failed,” Steele continued
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