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Holding Murderers Accountable, American Style
Army sergeant Joseph Bozicevich was sentenced Wednesday to life in military prison without parole. He was convicted of killing his fellow soldiers, Staff Sgt. Darris Dawson and Sgt. Wesley Durbin, at a small patrol base outside Baghdad in September 2008. An argument...
Egyptians Have the Audacity to Harbor a Grudge
AP: The Obama administration is expressing concern about what it says is a tide of anti-Americanism in Egypt. The State Department says criticism of U.S. aid and motives as the country transitions to democracy are inaccurate and unfair. Oh, really? So it'd be...
The Obviously False Objections to Palestinian Statehood at U.N.
Harry Siegman has a brilliant takedown at the National Interest of U.S.-Israeli objections to a September bid for Palestinian statehood at the U.N. I wrote a bit about the false arguments against Palestinian statehood last month. As I did, Siegman explodes the...
Afghanistan: A Failed Strategy On All Fronts
This piece from Time criticizes the overall strategy in Afghanistan as misplaced and unworkable, and lays some blame on U.S. sloppiness in delegating civilian authority on the ground (aka, general incompetence). It talks about former U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's...
NeoCons Push for Iraq-Like Sanctions in Iran
Eli Clifton at Think Progress on the neoconservative push for tighter sanctions on Iran: The announcement that 90 U.S. senators signed a letter to President Obama urging him to sanction Iran’s central bank has been described by some American officials, according...
Crocker: Iraqi PM Maliki’s Turn Towards Dictatorship Is “In U.S. Interest”
Another new Wikileaks cable on Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki provides some insight into U.S. intentions in one of its newest client states. The diplomat writing the cables is Ryan Crocker, just recently appointed Ambassador to Afghanistan. He talks about Maliki's turn...
U.S., Saudi Oil Influence in Yemen: Dictating Who Gets to Be Dictator
The Cato Institute's Malou Innocent, writing at the National Interest's Skeptics blog, directs us to a Wikileaks-released diplomatic cable detailing Saudi Arabia's plan "to build, own, and operate a pipeline that bypasses the straits of Hormuz—and hence, the Islamic...
“A Warrior for Christ, a Warrior for Our Country”
The reporting on the U.S. army casualties in the recent downing of a Chinook helicopter by Taliban insurgents is, to put it kindly, inappropriate. Thirty soldiers were killed in the largest single incident of U.S. casualties to date. It is a tragedy, but it deserves a...
Concealing Evidence at Gitmo
Via Peter Van Buren, this recent study of medical records kept at Guantanamo Bay concludes: The findings in these nine cases from GTMO indicate that medical doctors and mental health personnel assigned to the DoD neglected and/or concealed medical evidence of...
