President Obama has said explicitly that his attack on Syria would be limited. It would not be aimed at regime change, wouldn't include boots on the ground, and wouldn't even aim to prevent the Assad regime from being able to continue to use violence to fight the...
It is official U.S. policy that offensive cyberwarfare is subject to international laws of war and, if perpetrated against the United States, may trigger a military response. The Washington Post reported last year: "Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering...
"You know how I stayed alive this long? All these years? Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. Somebody steals from me, I cut off his hands. He offends me, I cut out his tongue. He rises against me, I cut off his head, stick it on a pike, raise it high up so all on...
I really can't add much to this... Here's the link. At least it's an honest argument. And it's the same for many people now pining for another U.S. war in the Middle East: "the law" is just some antiquated, idealistic notion that doesn't apply to states, especially...
As President Obama contemplates how and when to commence war crimes in his impending attack on Syria for, at best, dubious reasons, it's worth remembering that we are already at war. You'd be forgiven for forgetting. We don't hear about this one, but the U.S. is still...
The Obama administration's case for war against Syria is incredibly thin. That is unsurprising. What is a little bit surprising is that they're not really even trying to make it more compelling. As I've written, Obama is about to violate both the Constitution and...
Over at the Christian Science Monitor, Nathan Gardels interviews Hans Blix, chief UN arms inspector for Iraq from 2000-2003 and former head of the IAEA, on the Obama administration's plan for bombing Syria. Blix, of course, has some experience dealing with American...
It's been mentioned that Obama, whether he thinks so or not, is going to need to get Congressional approval before he bombs Syria. It doesn't look like that's going to happen, given that administration officials say strikes could come as early as Thursday of this week...
This month's belated official acknowledgement by the CIA through declassified documents of what everyone already knew - that the U.S. deliberately fomented a coup in Iran in 1953 to overthrow a democratically elected government and install an obedient dictatorship -...
