Jerrod Laber

On August 8, The New York Times Magazine‘s C.J. Chivers published a lengthy pre-mortem of the failures of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, noting how "Aside from displacing tyrants and leading to the eventual killing of Osama bin Laden, none of this turned out as pitched. Prominent successes were short-lived." This faint praise of … Continue reading “Plans To Memorialize a War Without End”

Arizona senator John McCain recently criticized Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for statements about sometimes setting aside American values in foreign policy. Tillerson said in an address to the State Department on March 3rd, that "if you condition our national security efforts on someone adopting our values…it really creates obstacles to our ability to advance … Continue reading “McCain’s Foreign Policy Record Not Representative of ‘American Values’”

It’s conventional wisdom that Washington, DC is a city marked by gridlock. Republicans obstructed President Obama’s agenda on principle, as Democrats are attempting to do now with Donald Trump. To give even an inch is a sign of political weakness. Trump is, admittedly, a polarizing figure, and there is certainly plenty of dissent in today’s … Continue reading “War on Terror Unites Trump and the Establishment”

War is hell. It’s a statement we’ve heard so many times we tend to take it now as an axiom, a truism that is so obvious it serves as a giant, bolded period in any conversation. It’s all that needs to be said – war is hell. But in the ensuing silence lies what I … Continue reading “A New War Prayer”