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 [...]

The Afghanistan War costs American taxpayers more than $2 billion a week at a time when communities are falling apart, and our mayors are fed up. On Monday, the United States Conference of Mayors is expected to pass a resolution calling for a speedy end of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so we can use [...]

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. 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 [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters late last week that he thinks we may turn the corner at the end of this year in Afghanistan. Again. Turning the corner, or the tide, or the momentum, or what have you, has become a semi-annual ritual in the failing U.S. war in Afghanistan. While all these turned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The state of Indiana just denied life-saving surgery to a six month old after making deep budget cuts to their state health care safety net. The surgery saved the lives of 58 of the last 60 kids to get it. “Too bad, kiddo, we can’t afford it.” Except, they can. Easily. We know this because [...]

Arizona’s Republican-led state government just decided to cut their state budget by slashing their state’s Medicaid coverage for organ transplants, even though Arizona has plenty of money to fund these life-saving medical procedures. That’s right–Arizona has plenty of money to fund these life-saving procedures, despite what the politicians in the state claim. They just have [...]