Our survival and reach today is quite astounding considering how we started as such a lonely voice in Washington's warmongering media wilderness. Yet there is still much more work to do. The magazine is still rare as a respected and credentialed voice questioning the Republican establishment.

A trillion-dollar-plus military and intelligence establishment has many, many ways to subsidize and promote its profitable and career-building agenda. As our new editor Robert Merry describes, most Americans don't support Washington's unending military interventions against ever-morphing enemies. Fifty-one percent think we are less safe today than we were before we started them. Only 11 percent think we are consequently safer. Yet, as TAC supporter Richard Young commented, "Unfortunately, recent scientific studies show that American public opinion has essentially ZERO impact on what our Government actually chooses to do." America is still an incompetent crusader as warned years ago in one of TAC's great classics by James Pinkerton, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Imperialists."