The Heroic Left-Right Peace Conference

Dan McCarthy of The American Conservative invited YAL's Nick Leavens, Shaun Bowen, and me to attend a bipartisan peace conference last week. Attendees came to the meeting hoping to form a broad antiwar coalition. Disagreements arose, but we were unified in opposition to  Obama's wars and the bipartisan foreign policy of empire. 

The meeting, organized by Voters for Peace chair Kevin Zeese, and former Pat Buchanan campaign official George O'Neill, included in its guestlist:

• An economist from a naval war college who previously served as the chief energy economist in President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. 
• Two officials of Veterans for Peace, including the organization's chief executive.
• Katrina van Heuvel, publisher of The Nation,  aka "The flagship of the left."
• A regular contributor to Rolling Stone, and a contributing editor at The Nation,
• A Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute