Here’s what the 1972 candidate for President, the late George McGovern, said on the Senate floor in 1970, during the debate over the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment to End the War in Vietnam: Every senator in this chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This chamber reeks of blood. Every Senator [...]
We Don’t Have an American Foreign Policy Debate |
| By: David Dayen Tuesday October 23, 2012 7:03 am |
Administration Wrestles With Another Round of the Drone Wars in Africa |
| By: David Dayen Tuesday October 2, 2012 10:50 am |
Today the US State Department pulled out all of their government personnel from Benghazi – essential personnel and non-essential alike. In the wake of the attack on the US consulate, they have determined the city too unsafe, even after residents drove militia groups operating in Benghazi from their bases. The FBI has still not reached [...]
Military Crash in Mali Reveals Special Operations Work |
| By: David Dayen Monday July 9, 2012 9:35 am |
As a reminder that the United States is still at war, 6 US soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan. As a reminder that the United States is still at war in countries you don’t even know about, there’s this from the Washington Post: In pre-dawn darkness, a Toyota Land Cruiser skidded [...]



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