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Two fantastic videos honoring our World War II vets and deceased from Iraq and Afghanistan

Please take a couple of minutes to view two videos I have posted on my blog. One is a... more

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Two Iraq Vets Kill Loved Ones, Themselves

A Former Hawaii National Guardsman and a Wisconsin National Guard soldier, both... more

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It is a national tragedy how our returning Veterans are being treated by our government (video)

Most people have no idea how shoddy the treatment has been for our returning veterans... more

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News: Shocking war fact: 300,000 returning Iraq and Afghanistan war vets suffer from PTSD.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has hit 25 percent of the number of people in the U.S.... more

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Foreign Policy In Focus | Getting Beyond the Usual Suspects on Foreign Policy

By David Vine, June 24, 2010

Late last week I was asked to write a short response to the question, “Is American foreign policy too ambitious?” In an opening line that was edited out of the final article, I wrote, “I’m not sure who else will answer this question, but I hope an Afghan and an Iraqi are among them.” I continued:

Given the tens of thousands dead, wounded, and displaced in Afghanistan and the millions dead, wounded, and displaced in Iraq since 2001, I wonder how an Iraqi or Afghan would answer this question. So too, I wonder how the family of a dead or maimed member of the U.S. military would respond?

The person organizing the online forum for Los Angeles’ Zócalo Public Square told me that she had tried unsuccessfully to get such a commentator. Despite her best efforts, the four writers, whose responses were linked to an event for Peter Beinart’s new book The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, were exactly the people one would expect opining about U.S. foreign policy: They were, from all appearances, white, relatively elite men like me.

With few exceptions, these are the people who have long dominated foreign-policy debates as pundits, politicians, military brass, think tankers, and academics. While discussions of any kind about foreign policy have been rare of late (with General McChrystal’s public insubordination representing a recent opportunity), a longer-term question remains about how to expand the diversity of those deemed foreign policy “experts” beyond the usual suspects.

Of course there are aberrations from the white-male-elite norm, with important voices speaking out on foreign policy from, among others, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans against the War, and a recent letter asking President Obama to begin peace talks with the Taliban. The millions in the United States and globally who took to the streets to protest the invasion of Iraq likewise represent an unprecedented degree of public involvement in foreign policy.

The question remains how to further democratize debates and directions on war and foreign policy? Although I’ve never been there in person, Zócalo’s public square, like FPIF, seems to offer one small model for inspiring greater public involvement. Clearly nothing will take the place of masses of people getting into the streets. But part of the answer also lies in changing the faces of more of the experts, in disqualifying the expertise of some of those who have led us into two deadly and unnecessary wars, and in making the usual suspects on foreign policy more reflective of the nation’s diversity.

http://www.fpif.org/blog/getting_beyond_the_usual_suspects_on_foreign_policyBy David Vine, June 24, 2010 Late last week I was asked to write a short response... more

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Iraqis Mark Seventh War Anniversary

For Iraqis, Friday, April 9th marked the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion... more

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Veteran Of 'Collateral Murder' Company Speaks Out

Josh Stieber, who is a former soldier of the so-called “Collateral Murder”... more

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Share 3394 Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us"

On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US... more

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U.S. Veterans Returning Home To Unemployment

The Labor Department says that the unemployment rate last year for young Iraq and... more

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Great Iraq War documentary teaser...

this was a collection of shots I filmed and edited as major project. I shot most of... more

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Coming home: The Army's fatal neglect-05.12.09

The day after the shooting at a combat stress clinic in Iraq, new data released to... more

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Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans-Nov. 13, 2007

"But a five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling... more

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No Contractor Left Behind

No Contractor Left Behind tells how American soldiers were not told they were exposed... more

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Troops Outnumber Taliban 12 to 1

The Associated Press reports that there are already more than 100,000 international... more

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U.S. Combat Injuries Rise Sharply

More than 1,000 US troops have been wounded in battle over the past three months in... more

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TweetUp4Troops and the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation to Support Trees for Troops Program

Trees for Troops has touched 50,082 military families by providing them a fresh,... more

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'Surge Home' Overwhelms VA Clinics

September 03, 2009 Christian Science Monitor|by Gordon Lubold WASHINGTON -- When... more

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One More US Soldier Refuses to Fight Afghan War

I hope that more people can find the strength to do the same. I don't agree with... more

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Thrilled Iraq Vets Talk About Meeting Obama (VIDEO)

Two soldiers in Iraq, Olga Elliot and April Turner, who got "a picture and a hug... more

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