Jonathan Landay, a national security and intelligence reporter for McClatchy Newspapers, discusses why anyone paying attention during the 2003 Iraq War could see the current situation coming; the disingenuous complaints that Obama should have kept US troops in Iraq after 2011; and the Iran-Syria-US (unofficial) coalition against ISIS.

Major Todd E. Pierce, a former JAG defense attorney at Guantanamo, discusses the Bush administration's attack on the Constitution after 9/11, and why the destruction of our civil liberties isn't making us any safer.

Jason Ditz, news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses ISIS's capture of US-made anti-aircraft missiles and why the Sunni offensive in Iraq will slow down now that they have captured territory.

Jesse Franzblau, a policy analyst and freedom of information activist working with the National Security Archive, discusses the escalating crisis in Libya and why the 2011 intervention "can only be regarded as a dramatic strategic failure on the part of the United States and its NATO allies."

Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the ISIS/Sunni offensive in Iraq; John Kerry's pretense that Egypt's military dictatorship is really a democracy; and the strange Israel-Saudi Arabia special relationship.

Eric Margolis, an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist, discusses the neoconservative strategists of yesteryear who brought about the current almighty mess in Iraq; why the US continues to support the Syrian opposition; the resurgence of Saddam's Baath party; and the risks of terrorism blowback in Europe and the US.