Author Archives: John Glaser

Brave New War

Posted on August 9, 2012

Drones have already transformed military history.

Post-bin Laden, Keep It Real on Torture

Posted on May 2, 2011

Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard implies that U.S. interrogation techniques (torture) …

Republicans for Obama 2012

Posted on April 28, 2011

The paltry menu of downcast Republican contenders for the 2012 election has …

Jailing Advisers at Gitmo

Posted on April 27, 2011

This New Yorker piece on recent Wikileaks documents on Guantanamo brilliantly summarizes …

Selling the War

Posted on April 20, 2011

The Washington Post on Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez, who is being …

Exporting Tyranny through Foreign Aid

Posted on April 19, 2011

Will upheaval in the Middle East force the U.S. to rethink its …

Getting Used to War

Posted on April 18, 2011

We’ve reached a point in American history where it requires very little …

Funding Tyranny: A U.S. Prerogative

Posted on April 14, 2011

Today’s Wall Street Journal has yet another example of the profoundly hypocritical …

Af-Pak: A Losing Strategy

Posted on April 13, 2011

U.S. aggression in Afghanistan and Pakistan is fraught with harms and hitches, …

Afpak: What They’re Saying on the Ground

Posted on April 7, 2011

Anatol Lieven has an interesting piece up at the National Interest. Lieven …

How Much of Your Taxes Pay for War?

Posted on April 7, 2011

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe have devised a “cost of war” calculator for …

Demonizing Qaddafi

Posted on April 6, 2011

A New York Times article on Libya exemplifies the tendency of the …

Double Standards and Support for Terror

Posted on March 31, 2011

According to a Reuters report, a few weeks ago, President Obama “signed …

Unredeemable Thugs?

Posted on March 30, 2011

At the National Interest blog, Paul Pillar explores the – somewhat expected – musings …

The Young Right Turns to Liberty

Posted on March 29, 2011

Rancor at CPAC shows how libertarians are battling for the soul of …

March Cover Story & Special Preview of April

Posted on February 14, 2011

The cover story of the March issue of The American Conservative is …

Relying On Allied Tyranny

Posted on February 7, 2011

The consistency of American foreign policy is a thing to marvel at. …

How Egypt is Revealing What is Wrong in American Discourse

Posted on February 4, 2011

Events in Egypt have revealed something incredible about American political discourse. Most …

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

Posted on February 3, 2011

The events in Egypt and across the Middle East are the most …

What Obama’s Egypt Stance Really Means

Posted on January 31, 2011

Lies and diversions always pollute official explanations of state policy, and Obama’s talk on Egypt in the past few days is no different. For decades, U.S. policy toward Egypt has consistently supported dictatorship and hasn’t changed with the recent popular uprisings — despite rhetoric to the contrary.