The site's first objective "was to fight against intervention in the Balkans under the Clinton presidency." It "applied the same principles to Clinton's campaigns in Haiti and Kosovo and bombings of Sudan and Afghanistan." Antiwar.com opposed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and generally opposes interventionism, including the US bombing of Serbia and continuing occupation of Afghanistan. It has also condemned aggressive military action and other forms of belligerence on the part of other governments, as well as what contributors view as the fiscal and civil liberties consequences of war. Wen Stephenson of "The Atlantic" described the site as marked by "a decidely right-wing cast of thought." Its founders characterize themselves as libertarians, and the two principal co-founders were involved in libertarian Republican politics, at the time.