(Cross posted at @TAC) I know it is a tired trope, but it's helpful to look at the ultimate success of Counterinsurgency, or the vaunted COIN doctrine dominating the popular ethos of the American military establishment, as a three-legged stool. As it is conceived, or...
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What happened to the "antiwar" members of Congress? Only 12 voted against new sanctions on Iran, 3 of them Republicans. 412 voted in favor. Here is the honor roll who voted against: Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) John Conyers (D-MI) John Duncan (R-TN)...
As predicted, Bob Kagan follows in Kristol’s wake. Afghanistan is so passé; it’s clearly time to focus on Iran. Check out the last paragraph in his column in Sunday’s Washington Post — specifically, the order in which the problems facing Obama are presented,...
Now that he and presumably his friends at the Foreign Policy Initiative got a lot of what they wanted from Obama on Afghanistan, Bill Kristol is once again pivoting westward – this time to Iran, rather than Iraq – as he did eight years ago with the infamous...
In January and February 1966, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, J. William Fulbright, held a series of televised public hearings to discuss the deepening military involvement of the United States in Vietnam. Fulbright summoned to testify three...
It now appears that the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (IRPSA), Howard Berman’s sanctions bill targeting Iran’s refined petroleum sector, is likely to come up for a vote in the near future. AIPAC and other hawkish “Israel lobby†groups have made the...
The Obama administration is conducting a workshop on government openness for federal employees today. It is, of course, closed to the public and the media. While the White House has tried to make the point that the public has a right to know, they have been secretive...
Before the House of Representatives, December 2, 2009:
This is the 150th anniversary of the hanging of John Brown. When he attacked Harper's Ferry with a handful of followers, the butcher of Kansas helped sow the seeds of the Civil War. Few things would have made Brown happier than the thought of hundreds of thousands of...
