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This week marks 8 years in Afghanistan, and President Obama is thinking of doubling down on war. Republicans are bombarding him with pressure to send as many as 45,000 troops. Is the President [...]

Rory Stewart of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard has been an interesting person to watch on the Afghanistan policy debate. A former British soldier, Stewart walked 6,000 miles across [...]

Today marks a first step toward fixing the diplomatic vacuum between Iran and America.  Talks are taking place in the isolated Villa Le Saugy between Iran, the members of the UN Security Council, [...]

As the talks with Iran start today, we made our argument in the San Jose Mercury News explaining why sanctions will backfire and we need to let diplomacy bear fruit: It was right before the [...]

President Obama is “skeptical” about the need for more troops in Afghanistan.  General McChrystal says we must send more of our young men and women to Afghanistan or risk “mission failure.” We [...]

Thanks to your help, we flooded Congress with opposition to the F-22 fighter jet, and both the House and Senate voted to cut wasteful funding for planes even the Pentagon doesn’t want [...]

When releasing his new plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Obama promised a “civilian surge” to complement the increase in troops. While the rhetoric is certainly appealing, [...]

We have a chance to win on two issues in the next few days: 1. Cut the funding for the outdated F-22 Jet, which both Pres. Obama and Def. Sec. gates want cut. 2. Get an exit strategy from the [...]

The U.S. House of Representatives is on the verge of voting on the final war supplemental! They have passed the rule, but it doesn’t look like they have the votes yet to pass the [...]

House Democratic leadership definitely does not have the votes yet.  It sounds like the leadership is going to use floor time tonight on various votes to do face-to-face whipping.  If they have [...]