According to an exclusive report from Daniel Klaidman at The Daily Beast, President Obama "is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Officials anticipate a phased-in transition in which the CIA’s drone...
It is a curious phenomenon that misery, death and widespread destruction of property is mourned when it comes as the result of a natural disaster, or at the hands of a tyrannical foreign government, yet is callously disregarded when undertaken as part of the military...
From Frank Brodhead's Iran War Weekly update: As readers may/will recall, we are between negotiating sessions about Iran’s nuclear program. After an eight-month hiatus, restarting negotiations between the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council)...
Ten years ago, in March of 2003, Iraqis braced themselves for the anticipated "Shock and Awe" attacks that the U.S. was planning to launch against them. The media buildup for the attack assured Iraqis that barbarous assaults were looming. I was living in Baghdad at...
Twitter has been on fire today with myriad quips, snarks, I told you sos and above all, honest lamentations on the 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq. There's also something else -- blowback on the mainstream punditocracy and media sheeplesphere, not so...
Musing how Bush's war on terror and invasion of Iraq ten years ago changed the world... Here's one of my old fav pieces first published in 2006 by the Future of Freedom Foundation, supplemented with a few photos I took. When I visited the Tower of London, I was...
Charles Duelfer, who led the CIA's Iraq Survey Group in 2004, argues a stunning yet popularly held belief in Foreign Policy magazine, that the Bush administration did not lie about Iraq's alleged WMD program; they were just wrong about it. "The intelligence wasn't...
Following up on John Glaser's excellent post on 9/11 & the Iraq war, here are a couple pieces I wrote shortly before and after Bush attacked Iraq. I had thought that Bush's rascalities would evoke a much stronger backlash than actually occurred. The mainstream...
March 19 is the tenth anniversary of invasion of Iraq by the United States, Britain and their allies. George W. Bush declared that the goals of the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to...
