American History for Truthdiggers: Bush II and the Birth of Forever War

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Aug 10, 2019 The 43rd president—besides leaving the domestic economy in ruins—bequeathed a disastrous foreign policy. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Freedom Isn’t Free at the State Department

Staff / Truthdig Oct 3, 2011 On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables hemorrhaged out onto the Internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department career by State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security for posting on my blog a link to a WikiLeaks document already available elsewhere on the Web. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Stick to the Deadline in Afghanistan

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jun 18, 2010 When he ordered his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama pledged that U.S. troops "will begin to come home" in the summer of 2011. Discouraging reports from the war zone should make him more determined to keep his promise -- and Americans more insistent on holding him to it.Discouraging reports from the war zone should make President Obama more determined to keep his promise -- and Americans more insistent on holding him to it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Love and Haiti

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jan 20, 2010 Dig deeper

Nation Building

Mike Keefe, The Denver Post Dec 7, 2009 Dig deeper

Blundering U.S. Should Spare the World Any More Nation Building

William Pfaff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2008 According to a new report, the U.S. has accomplished little more in Iraq than restoration of the basic services destroyed by the American invasion and the looting that followed. This is after killing or wounding -- how many, a half million? -- Iraqi civilians in order to liberate them. No wonder the Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at George W. Bush. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Weapon of Peace

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Mar 27, 2007 Dig deeper

Bush the Internationalist

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 14, 2006 "It's hard to keep up with George W Bush's shuttles between internationalism and isolationism You may recall he couldn't even be bothered to learn the names of the Grecians and Kosovians". Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )