It’s up to us to ensure that, in the wake of WikiLeaks, the war doesn’t last four more years like Vietnam did after the release of the Pentagon.
Conceding Failure of Pentagon Papers Critical to WikiLeaks’ Success Ending War
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Holding Israel’s Hand While It Attacks Iran
Signing a letter to House Republican leader John Boehner is a small step to help block an Israeli attack on Iran.
Imperial Overkill and the Death of U.S. Empire
The oft-cited reference to Afghanistan as the “graveyard of empires” haunts the increasingly desperate military measures of the United States in that beleaguered country. However, beyond Afghanistan and the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian basin region, the imperial projects of the United States are, more and more, a commitment to Pentagon aggression and profligacy. Imperial overstretch has transmogrified into imperial overkill.
Will Wikileaker SPC. Bradley Manning Be Redeemeed?
Is Wikileaker SPC. Bradley Manning the next Daniel Ellsberg?
South Korea Odd Man Out in Cheonan Outcome
Thanks to U.S. diplomatic blundering, China ekes out a victory over Cheonan.
The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency
There are moments that define a war. Just such a one occurred on June 21, when Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry helicoptered into Marjah for a photo op with the locals. It was to be a capstone event, the fruit of a four-month counterinsurgency offensive by Marines, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, and the newly minted Afghan National Army (ANA) to drive the Taliban out of the area and bring in good government.
On Trying Not to Think of Stalin While Reading the Priest-Arkin Series
The “Hidden World” series in The Washington Post by Dana Priest and William Arkin reveals the true extent to which the U.S. government has become a secretive national security state.
Pakistan’s Insurgents More Like Our Founding Fathers Than We Know?
The Times claims that Pakistan’s inequitable tax system helps drive the insurgency, but offers no proof.
Are Nuclear Weapons Really the Ultimate in More Bang for the Buck?
Is it true that a nuclear weapons program is the way for a small state to level the playing field with a larger state in one fell swoop?
What to Do About Somalia
Just as America’s fear of communism stampeded it to make disastrous decisions, its fear of Islam drives its self-defeating policy toward Somalia.