To Reform the VA, Congress Must Lead by Example
The Lead by Example Act would do one simple thing: make it so that members of Congress and their staff can receive health care only from VA facilities.
The VA Scandal: Two Years On
Efforts to hold negligent or dishonest (sometimes even criminal) VA officials accountable have also met a brick wall.
The VA Needs Reforming, Not Reshuffling
It’s been over a year since the wait-time-manipulation scandal was exposed at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Yet a year after it was revealed that VA officials nationwide had ...
America’s Strategic Drift
America’s national-security policy is strategically adrift. But that’s nothing new. The ambiguity began more than 20 years ago, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
During the Cold War, the threat ...
Video: Why Weakness Is Dangerous
Today, my organization — Concerned Veterans for America — launched our “Strength & Security Project,” a veterans-led national-security initiative dedicated to restoring American strength and leadership. You can learn more ...
The VA Needs Real Reform, Not Half-Measures
When President Obama nominated former Procter and Gamble CEO Robert McDonald to serve as the next secretary of the troubled U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), on June 30, he ...
Iraq’s Disintegration
Like fellow veterans of the Iraq war, I’ve watched the events of recent weeks with a combination of anger, helplessness, and disillusionment. So many gains reversed and so many lives ...
Fixing the VA Requires More Than a Fall Guy
Are we about to see the first stirrings of accountability at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), after years of neglect, indifference, and bureaucratic dysfunction? Let’s hope so.
Last week ...
Unlearning Iraq and Abandoning Afghanistan
An Associated Press headline from Monday provides a dispiriting glimpse into the dispiriting reality of Iraq following the Obama administration’s abandonment of that mission: 30 dead, 70 injured after multiple bomb ...
Meaningless Red Lines
Seven months ago, a desperate situation in Syria set the world on edge; today that country’s ongoing civil war is treated as an afterthought. Yet the Syrian situation continues to ...