Naming Our Nameless War
How Many Years Will It Be? by Andrew J. Bacevich via Tom Dispatch For well over a decade now the United States has been “a nation at war.” Does that war have a name? It did at the outset. After 9/11,… Continue Reading
Iraq War
Iraq: Maliki & Co.’s Path of Folly
by Wayne White The Biblical quotation, “whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap” could not be more relevant to what Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s near unremitting hostility toward Iraq’s powerful Sunni Arab minority has generated: a rising drumfire… Continue Reading
New Congressional Sanctions Push Aimed at Killing Iran Diplomacy
by Jamal Abdi The notion that U.S. sanctions on Iran are supposed to act as diplomatic leverage to get a nuclear deal may be dispelled once and for all by a new Congressional action now in the works. The House… Continue Reading
Decade After Iraq, Right-Wing and Liberal Hawks Reunite Over Syria
by Jim Lobe via IPS News Ten years after right-wing and liberal hawks came together to push the U.S. into invading Iraq, key members of the two groups appear to be reuniting behind stronger U.S. military intervention in Syria. While… Continue Reading
Keller and Mindlessness
by Jim Lobe I’ll make this short. Twenty-four hours ago, we posted Amb. Robert Hunter’s analysis of the Syria question and his appeal to Obama to “keep his nerve (backed by the US military leadership) and continue resisting attempts to… Continue Reading