Soros is Satan. You are serving Satan.

QI is a welcome change from the endless, whining tirade of the old hawks.

I wish them well in gaining influence in DC.

I hope that they can give voice to the growing numbers of us who do not support illegal invasions, funding dissidents to foment regime change and our flawed system of selecting key allies (regardless of their human rights records) and protecting them and their interests at all cost. This has been a drain our economic resources and moral standing.

In this time, when nationalism and disaster capitalism seem to be winning on both sides of the Atlantic, it seems there is little hope for peace, decency and diplomacy.

QI has a huge challenge to take on the parasitic organism that is the war machine, but any initiative is better than none.

If Quincy is to have any chance of success in its mission, it will have to tackle the issues surrounding Federal election campaign financing. The current rules give a handful of American billionaires effective control over US Middle East policy. What is good for donors like Sheldon and Miriam Edelson is not necessarily good for the American public. Donald Trump was elected president of the US not Prime Minister of Israel.

I did read one of Mr. Basevich's books a few years ago and my take away remains valid today: The US cannot afford to be the policeman of the world.

Good news in an area usually bereft of good news. But, what is wrong with being isolationist? Often that is the best course for our people.

"Isolationist" is a word used by interventionists to put down anti-interventionists. In today's world of mass communication no country can really be "isolated". Those who want the USA to intervene in the affairs of other states have something to gain from that policy. Maybe American could intervene by becoming a peacemaker instead of mongering wars based on greed for wealth and power to benefit so few at the expense of so many.

For the love of God - Trump has had three years to drawn down overseas involvement in stupid wars.

Not only has he failed to do so, he has increased our involvement in many of those stupid wars.

Stop waiting for Trump to keep his promises. He isn't going to, and he probably has long forgotten that he even made them.

He knows what he's doing, and what he's doing is just plain evil.

My favorite bumper sticker: "I'm already against the next war."

Outstanding news! It is long past time that those who oppose indiscriminate warfare on the left and right unit to pursue our common goal. I have only one question: how can I contribute?

Like this will do anything to stop the atrocities abroad using US blood and tax funds? No it won't!--as long as those lobbies who benefit from the wars continue to fund Wash. The only solution is that maybe someday the military refuses to fight any longer and starts a mutiny as almost happened in Vietnam. Sad, but can anybody think of another solution? Protests are ignored or the protestors are beaten and shot as they were during the Vietnam war.

Thank you for disclosing The American Conservative's funding from the Charles Koch Foundation. I am disappointed to see it, but appreciate the responsibility being taken.

That will be one big job. Dems. are now outdoing the Reps on war mongering. The Democrat-controlled House has voted 284-149 to pass a budget resolution giving the Pentagon a record $738 billion. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and others voted 'yes.' Now, is that a clue or what? The MIC umbilical cord stretches beyond the Reps. now. But, how can one get elected without joining in on the atrocities abroad?

Soros or Koch Brothers, and many of their internationally spawned organizations, are in the business of manipulating public to support the status quo interests that run the country. That is what they do. They have forever utilized the power of money and their philosophy of coopt, reuse, divide -- has created hundreds of institutions around globe. Infiltrated into Universities, funding their programs touting the establishment narrative, and buying influence along the way, from media to politicians, from artists to students.
Koch Brothers successfully coopted Tea Party movement, imposed its own brand of leaders on the movement, and Republican party ran on its fake platform for years. Now, they will use the popular disgust with wars and war profiteering, to coopt and infiltrate. I respect the individuals involved, and there is nothing that can be done without money.

But the moment they start serving politicians with ready made platforms to elect more of the same, under different, more updated image, we will know. But the new generations will not know, and will be swept in. Oh, well. Koch brothers successfully broke up UKIP in UK, by funding the renegade young foolish Robson, that championed a right cause of justice and police incompetence but in his foolishness did not notice that Koch brothers steered him into Islamophobia, ruining the party. This is why Brexit party was created, and once strong UKIP destroyed. It is not a mystery that Soros funded Antifa violent left movement, and opened many of its centers in Europe. To my knowledge in Italy and Greece, but there is more. Soros Open Society University is a globalist project, raising new generation of naïve revolutionaries of the brave new world without borders, where financial spider webs will reign supreme. Not that the young revolutionaries would figure it out. For as long as some money is coming in, good times.

It is quite true that the US policy has reached a dead end, but the way out is not easy. Without ability to accept others as equals, and treating the globe as if it consists of natives, to be conquered or fooled by treaties, to be broken at will. To change this trajectory, will take a catastrophic event, something to jerk us out of the imperial mindset.
Falling behind in technology and science is a sign of things to come. But without capability to grasp this, nothing can be learned until we spend ourselves into deteriorating standard of living and poverty. Immigrants cannot solve this problem. We are not at the dawn of industrial revolution with the need of cheap and plentiful workforce. With the ever more complex technological demands, we are no longer even organized as a society to support the change. These are the underlying issues, and foreign policy chaos is the result. Throwing more money on the existing structures in military sector, hoping for the change, will not work. The process is currently profit based and competitive, and not for the healthy reasons. I cannot see Soros and Koch brothers interested into a more fundamental analysis of the failures. They do not see failure, they are believers in status quo, with trimming at the edges. It will not work. Good luck to the great people who are undertaking the effort.

Always love to hear Bianca's take on the goings on we must endure. Yes, it seems that under Trump what we get is more of the same.. The new boss jus like th'ole 1.... Interesting that Bianca mentions falling behind in technology. Remember that the invention of dynamite was seen as such a fearful reality that wars would cease to emerge... But now we have the U.S. and probably the Russian Federation going for very low yeild nukes to use as a substitute for boots on the ground. One thing is certain, when 5th generation actors are able to detonate nuclear devices, it won't be more of the same. Just as guns took the primacy of the Knights, basement nukes are going to make a comparable change... These days anyone with a will to do so can make dynamite or equivalent in strength... Every day that ticks by brings us closer to such a reality. Maybe now would be a good time to work to end the privilege of States to kill their dissatisfied citizen demonstrators and add strings to blank check military assistance to the most murderous recipients. When this baby blows, the boom will be heady for 10,000 miles and beyond...!!!!!!!!!!

Soros is a huge supporter of regime change wars. He should not be involved with this in any way. Also, I don't believe that having an Iranian associated with some Iranian activist group running this thing is a good idea either. Someone like that can't be trusted to put American interests first.

So, Grigori Schwartz(George Soros)and libertarian/libertine Charlie Koch are funding Quincy. And conservatives are supposed to take this seriously?