¿Qué significa victoria? Ahora que Washington se encuentra ante seis guerras, por lo menos (Iraq, Afganistán, Pakistán, Libia, Yemen, y de modo más general, la guerra global contra el terror), los estadounidenses viven en un nuevo mundo bélico. Aunque no se hayan alistado en las fuerzas armadas compuestas solo de voluntarios, en [...]

Signs of the Great American Unraveling It’s already gone, having barely outlasted its moment — just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military wanted, something less than Joe Biden would have liked, not enough for the growing crew [...]

While we go on waging unwinnable wars on false premises, the Pentagon papers tell us we must not wait 40 years for the truth The declassification and online release Monday of the full original version of the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000-page top secret Pentagon study of US decision-making in Vietnam 1945-67 – comes 40 years [...]

In times of war, U.S. presidents have often talked about yearning for peace. But the last decade has brought a gradual shift in the rhetorical zeitgeist while a tacit assumption has taken hold — war must go on, one way or another. “I am continuing and I am increasing the search for every [...]

Tras la muerte de Osama bien Laden, hay una oportunidad perfecta para que la administración Obama ponga fin a la “guerra contra el terror” que dura ya una década, se retire de Afganistán y cierre la prisión en la Bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba. La justificación de ambas aberraciones, tanto de la invasión [...]

Es hora ya de acabar con las celebraciones y regresar a Kansas Allá por los años sesenta, el Senador George Aiken de Vermont le ofreció a dos presidentes estadounidenses un plan para afrontar la Guerra de Vietnam: declarar la victoria y volver a casa. Rotundamente ignorado en aquel momento es, sin embargo, un [...]

Osama bin Laden was the reason given for invading Afghanistan in 2001–but he was found in 2011 in Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Afghan people have dealt with ten years of occupation, and Malalai Joya has been speaking out against it for that long. Malalai joined Laura in studio before the death of [...]

It’s Time to Stop Celebrating and Go Back to Kansas Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory and go home. Roundly ignored at the time, it’s a plan worth considering again today for a war in Afghanistan and Pakistan [...]

Osama bin Laden is no martyr. He is certainly no Che Guevara, whose fate at the hands of the Central Intelligence Agency was strikingly similar to his. But one cannot escape the fact that he succeeded in unleashing a chain of events that led to his nemesis, the United States, becoming a diminished power compared [...]

La noticia de que el presidente Barack Obama ha elegido al general David Petraeus como director de la CIA provoca preguntas inquietantes, incluida la de si el comandante más asociado con las guerras en Iraq y Afganistán tolerará un análisis objetivo de esos dos conflictos. ¿Qué pasará si los analistas de la [...]