Paul’s report on government waste in 2021
It’s an open secret that official Washington wastes billions of tax dollars every year…and yet still has the gall to say that such waste is largely fiction. Kentucky Sen. Rand…
Giving the Pentagon billions of additional dollars it never requested
Congress can’t help itself when it comes to spending, and that’s long been true of spending on the Department of Defense. The DoD was initially scheduled for a very modest…
The foreign aid ‘cornucopia of corruption’ in Afghanistan
The fallout from America’s two decade war in Afghanistan continues to fall, this time on the foreign aid establishment that eagerly spent tens of billions of dollars to achieve…next to…
There’s plenty of blame to go around for Afghanistan
With America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan (mostly) complete, one might think the diplomatic and military establishments that were so deeply involved in the 20 year-long conflict would take a moment to…
Twenty years on, the war on terror has made the state larger and stronger than ever
One of the biggest changes in America during the 20 year-long fight against global terrorism has been the rapid change, and accelerated growth, of the security state. Once designed to…
Worse than the fall of Saigon
The popular pushback against comparisons of the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul with that of Saigon in 1975 is that they are entirely different, and can’t be compared in any way,…
State Department drops $2,000 fee for evacuation flights
The State Department has decided it will drop the usual $2,000 fee it charges people to take evacuation flights from war-torn or disaster areas like Afghanistan: People evacuated from Afghanistan…
The litany of waste in Afghanistan
Inside the Special Inspector General’s Report on Afghanistan are examples of how the U.S, government wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment, building projects, and policies. Bloomberg gathered a…
The costs of the endless wars will drag on for decades
The price tag for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were staggering – somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.2 trillion. But we should not forget that those wars were fought…
The ‘Lessons’ from 20 years in Afghanistan
Some members of Congress are calling for investigations into how America’s 20 year military presence in Afghanistan could come to such a shabby end. Any hearings or investigations should begin…
