The True Legacy of Bush’s War in Iraq: Breeding Generations of Al-Qaeda
In the US foreign policy community, one major legacy of George W. Bush's war in Iraq is that it gave Iraq to the Shiites and thus to Iran. There is some focus on the fact that the administration lied the country into war, and almost none on the fact that this led to...
Three Ways Obama Carried Bush’s Tyrannical Torch, in Just One Week
If one were looking for a way to demonstrate how faithfully the Obama administration had carried on the legacy of the Bush administration, this past week takes the cake, and no, I'm not talking about making Bush tax cuts on the middle class permanent. In a matter of...
Government Surveillance of American Citizens
Comparing America’s Failure in Afghanistan to the Soviet’s in 1989
The New Years experience tends to generate perspective and long-term thinking. At least, that's the case with two unlikely opinionators: The New York Times and the Taliban. Both the Times and the Taliban have made strong, end of the year historical comparisons between...
War in Syria Such an Obviously Bad Idea, Even DC Insiders Know It
Why hasn't the Obama administration intervened militarily in Syria? If you read this site with any regularity, you'll know the answer to that. The great irony is that the major factors that make military intervention in Syria's civil war impractical, unworkable, and...
Declassified: US Government Colluded With Big Banks to Monitor, Disrupt Occupy Protesters as ‘Criminal Threats’
According to recently released documents, the federal government monitored the Occupy Wall Street movement from its very inception, internally referring to it as a potential criminal and terrorist threat despite acknowledging the movement's explicit rejection of...
US Bombs Killed At Least 223 People in Yemen in 2012
The US government has killed 223 people in Yemen in more than 40 drone strikes in 2012, according to estimates from the Long War Journal. The Long War Journal is a project of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neo-conservative think-tank in Washington, DC...
Is US Meddling Making a China-Japan War Inevitable?
A Chinese think-tank (via Zero Hedge) has predicted that military conflict between China and Japan is inevitable now, thanks in part to US meddling in the Asia-Pacific region. With the rise of China as Asia's leading economic power, a Chinese government think tank...
US Support for Dictatorship in Iraq Sowing Future Chaos
The state structures built in Iraq by the US military occupation are now the depraved tools of repression. First among these tools is the US-trained and equipped Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF). By the time Washington was preparing to draw down forces in Iraq,...
