Nothing about the Iraq fiasco should be called a success, despite President Obama’s attempt to provide closure to the troops misused and abused since the launch of that war. Read more: Kbr, Rethink Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Kellog Brown and Root, War Costs, Brave New Films, William Utt, Iraq, War Profiteering, Haliburton, Brave [...]

According to the website iCasualties.org, which tracks U.S. troop deaths and injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of troops killed in connection with the Afghanistan war now exceeds 1,500. Here are the names of the U.S. troops that have been killed since the death of Osama bin Laden: Kirton, Brandon M. Pressley, Cheziray Tucker, [...]

Osama bin Laden is dead. You may have heard. There’s a major groundswell underway to force a rethink of the Afghanistan War in the aftermath, but some in Washington, D.C. refuse to change course. Case in point, here’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, failing to seize the opportunity to change direction in her remarks about Bin Laden’s death [...]

Osama bin Laden is dead. Al Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan in any significant numbers. While the Afghanistan War long ago lost a strategic rationale supported by actual outcomes on the ground (insurgent-initiated attacks continue to rise every year, despite the massive escalations of the past two years), bin Laden’s death obliterates the last [...]

WASHINGTON — As Americans breathe a sigh of relief over finally filing the returns on what they owe (or are owed from) Uncle Sam this Tax Day, the progressive group Rethink Afghanistan wants them to consider how much of their money is funding the war in Afghanistan, now in its 10th year. The group, a [...]

While millions of Americans are out of work or struggling to pay their bills, our government is spending billions of dollars a week on a war we don’t support in Afghanistan. At no time is this more apparent than on Tax Day, which is coming up on April 18. Use our new Afghanistan War Tax [...]

When testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General David Petraeus told senators that he understood the frustration with the Afghanistan War, conceding that “we have spent an enormous amount of money.” The general has a gift for understatement. We are spending $2 billion a week on this futile, brutal war that’s not making us [...]

The latest general to find himself excoriated in the pages of Rolling Stone, Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, should resign immediately for using psychological operations, commonly known as “psy-ops” against U.S. lawmakers visiting Afghanistan. If he will not resign immediately, President Obama should fire him. Sign our petition calling for Lt. General William Caldwell to be [...]

When President Obama announced his troop escalation in Afghanistan one year ago, I wasn’t shy about saying the new strategy would make the insurgency worse. I believed the economic and human costs would be far too high, crippling our ability to recover from a deep recession. Unfortunately, since the escalated campaign began in Marjah last [...]

What would you do with $1 trillion? Unfortunately, one of Washington, D.C.’s answers over the last decade has been, “waste it on two wars that make us less safe and cause deep suffering at home and abroad.” The true costs of those bad decisions will be paid by today’s youth, since policymakers failed to raise [...]