NYT on CIA Afghan death squads: “They said, ‘Don’t come out — if the airstrikes hit you, then don’t complain,’” said Adel, whose face had shrapnel wounds from the raid. While the family waited in the house, Adel’s father bled to death in the yard. Mohibullah, a...
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‘Blowback’ and the Frustrating Necessity of Rebutting David French
David French is one of my least favorite people on Twitter. Former Major in the US Army, Iraq War vet and columnist for National Review, French spends his day's online hand-wringing about the need for "realism" in foreign policy, ergo an enormous military, all to keep...
News Roundup 12/28/18
Fentanyl is used in half of opioid deaths. [Link] A Mississippi sheriff was arrested for embezzlement, having sex with inmates, and threatening his employees. [Link] Police force doctors to perform a non consensual anal exam on a man they suspected of having drugs....
11/30/18 Ted Galen Carpenter on Libya and Ukraine
Ted Carpenter rejoins the show to discuss both of his recent articles for The American Conservative. The first outlines Libya's political history since the ouster of Gaddafi, in which several promised democratic elections have come and gone. Now politicians are...
News Roundup 11/26/18
A woman spent three months in jail after police mistook cotton candy for meth. [Link] A judge orders George Papadopoulos to jail. [Link] The White House gives authority to US troops deployed to the southern border to use lethal force to protect border patrol. [Link]...
11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen
Andrea Carboni from ACLED Data comes on the show to talk about their casualty estimates for the war in Yemen. "10,000" is the number that has been used for the last few years, but that's exactly why it can't possibly be right. ACLED estimates that there have actually...
War is the Health of the State
(Part One of the unfinished essay, "The State") To most Americans of the classes which consider themselves significant the war [World War I] brought a sense of the sanctity of the State which, if they had had time to think about it, would have seemed a sudden and...
11/9/18 Arnold Isaacs on Remembering the Vietnam War
Arnold Isaacs joins the show to discuss the flawed ways the Vietnam War is remembered and commemorated. All too often, he explains, American crimes are whitewashed or left out altogether. If we don't face up to the deeds of our military and government in previous wars...
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