Bonnie Kristian in the L.A. Times
Our foreign policy going forward should be informed by what this recent poll shows most Americans have already realized: The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria weren’t worth it. They cost us dearly in every respect: indebted future generations, upended strategic priorities, unintentionally undermined U.S. security, inflicted suffering on foreign innocents, and spent the lives of U.S. troops in pursuit of ill-considered and unachievable aims.
The case of Rocky Myers is a window into so much that’s wrong with the death penalty in this country. The 53-year-old, who has an intellectual disability, was saddled with an incompetent lawyer, convicted on the evidence from a key witness who has since recanted his testimony, and sentenced to death by a judge who imposed death sentence against the jury’s wishes. Now he’s one of 175 prisoners on death row in Alabama – despite all the faults in his case – and with absolutely no evidence tying him to the scene of the crime.
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In an article in The Hill, Trevor Thrall argues that younger Americans are ready to embrace a different role for the U.S. in international relationships.
Poll after poll shows that Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996, and their younger siblings in Generation Z born 1997 and onward) are ready to ditch the frequent military intervention that has dominated American foreign policy during their lifetimes and instead embrace a foreign policy of restraint.
While older Americans worry that the younger generation may be more “isolationists”, Thrall argues that is not the case.
Among the trends that worry older Americans is the fact younger Americans report lower levels of belief in American exceptionalism and typically express less support for “taking an active part” in world affairs.
A deeper investigation, however, reveals that younger Americans don’t want to retreat from the world, they just want to engage it differently.
Isn’t this the Libertarian message? Isn’t this what Ron Paul, Scott Horton, and the folks at antiwar.com have been trying to tell people for years? The Libertarian position on foreign policy is not isolationists. It is a message that should resonate with a younger generation tired of endless wars and let them know there is another way, or as Scott Horton often states “it doesn’t have to be this way”. Trevor Thrall says Democrats should embrace the “message of restraint” but this is the Libertarian position and has been since the very beginning of the Libertarian movement. It is our message to the world and the younger generation is ready to hear it.
“A policy of nonintervention would make America stronger, wealthier, more influential and a respected beacon of liberty“.
Ron Paul
Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about “Uncle Sam” ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
In 1982, Israeli tanks crossed the border into Lebanon to hunt down the PLO. It was supposed to be a quick simple mission to push the Palestinian resistance groups north 25 miles to protect Israel. However, the mission quickly became more complicated with Israel going all the way up north to the capital and blockading the city with heavy civilian causalities.
This war forever changed the Middle East and the dynamics of the west’s relationship with Iran. In addition, the towers falling in Lebanon,inspired Osama-bin-laden to commit 9/11 in New York. Don’t miss out on this critical knowledge, laid out in a fun simple format!
The Saudi-led coalition said it started an operation to target military positions in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, according to state TV early on Saturday.
Fatik Al-Rodaini from Mona Relief Yemen Charity is reporting on Twitter that bombs are going off and Saudi jets are hovering around the capitol Sana’a.
