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.

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.

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.

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.

Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, discusses what's happening in Ukraine while the world's attention is focused on the Middle East; the Kiev government's reference to Russians as "subhuman;" and the State Department's questionable claim that Russian tanks are deployed in Ukraine.