Deploying Troops to Jordan: Asking For It?

With the news that more than 150 US forces have been deployed to Jordan, in part to "be positioned" as a contingent force "should the turmoil in Syria expand into a wider conflict," it's important to note the risk involved. As the New York Times reported: American...

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Romney, Candidate for Power

Micah Zenko at the Council on Foreign Relations lists Mitt Romney's apparent foreign policy principles vis-a-vis his foreign policy speech from yesterday. In part, Zenko's impressions are compatible with what I wrote about Romney's speech: that it suggested little to...

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The Art of the Hysterical Headline

It's Monday and no one's attacked Iran yet, so that means its time for hysterical headlines. Today's comes courtesy of the Associated Press and the redoubtable George Jahn, who never met a non-story with the word Iran in it that he couldn't turn into a countdown to...

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Antiwar.com Newsletter | October 5, 2012

Antiwar.com Newsletter | October 5, 2012IN THIS ISSUETop NewsOpinion and analysisThis week’s top news:Robert Gates: War on Iran Would Be ‘Catastrophic,’ Make Tehran Nukes ‘Inevitable’: Neither the United States nor Israel is capable of wiping out Iran’s nuclear...

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Afghans Love Being Occupied

Hey, did you know Afghans are killing US soldiers because they so desperately want us to continue occupying their country? That is the rather absurd argument in a piece run by Foreign Policy by Felisa "Farzana" Dyrud, a former US Air Force officer. Dyrud says that,...

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