The UK Daily Mail on Sunday reports that British MPs were surprised to hear a visiting Pentagon official declare: “I hate all Iranians.”
Debra Cagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coalition Affairs to US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, made the comments this month to a meeting of six Members of Parliament. She also accused Britain of [...]
Seymour Hersh maintains that the Bush administration is determined to strike Iran, though tactics and justifications have changed:
This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants. The focus [...]
While not entirely surprising, over the weekend, the Iranian parliament “voted to designate the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army as terrorist organizations.”
In part they claim that the clandestine unconventional warfare tactics that the CIA and Special Forces use to infiltrate and subjugate areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan is tantamount to [...]
Narratives of War
How Bush Became the New Saddam
Democrats No Different Than Bush
Reclassifying the IRGC
Dan McCarthy, Richard B. Spencer, and Jim Antle — all of whom might be broadly perceived as paleocons-with-libertarian-sympathies — have started a foreign policy blog, Exit Strategies, and it’s a great read: I especially liked two posts by Spencer: ”Les Neocons,” and his riff on iraq and “Snakes on a Plane.”
Daniel Larison, one of my favorite bloggers, takes on [...]
Vineyardsaker has a provocative post on Ahmadinejad’s description of America as a “big prison.” He posts this chilling data (emphasis added):
Incarcerations per 100,000 population (sample):
1014____Texas (in 1999) (governor George W. Bush)
1013____Louisiana (2001)
715_____United States of America (2001)
584_____Russian Federation
554_____Belarus
487_____Cuba
416_____Ukraine
402_____South Africa
388_____Singapore
267_____Namibia
253_____Tunisia
248_____Taiwan
210_____Poland
204_____Chile
194_____Iran
189_____Hong Kong (China)
178_____Czech Republic
177_____Greenland (Denmark)
176_____Jamaica
174_____Israel
173_____Libya
169_____Brazil
169_____Mexico
161_____New Zealand
158_____El Salvador
146_____Lebanon
142_____United Kingdom: England & Wales
129_____Portugal
126_____Colombia
125_____Republic of (South) Korea
121_____Egypt
119_____China
116_____Canada
Now surely, some regimes [...]
Suicide Terrorism Caused by Occupation, Not Islam
Still a Chance to Stop the Next War
Bush’s Biographer
