Cultures of War should be mandatory reading in our military academies and in government.
Cultures of War
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Iraq
Why Would U.S. Urge U.N. to Allow Iraq a Nuclear Energy Program?
It has the potential to add to tensions — not to mention an arms race — in the Middle East.
WikiLeaks: War, Diplomacy & Ban ki-Moon’s Toothbrush
These documents on their own will mean little but as instruments in the hands of rising U.S. and global movements against war, and for diplomacy just maybe these documents will help to end wars and change the world.
After Attacks on Iraqi Christians, Kurd Authorities Come Up Smelling a Little Too Rosy
No matter who’s at fault for the attacks on its Christians, Iraq is a shell of a state incapable of providing the basic security.
Method to the Madness of Iraqi Insurgents’ Mindless Violence
You’d think that insurgents who strike out at both Shia and Sunni would alienate most Middle-Easterners, but they may know what they’re doing.
Note to Al Qaeda in Iraq: How Does Attacking Your Own People Undermine Their Confidence in the Government?
Attempts by Iraqi insurgents to undermine confidence in the government only undermine confidence on the part of the public in their cause.
Flat-lined Iraqi Politics Shocked Back to Life
Iraqi politicians take their first steps toward a functioning government, but it will be months before anything meaningful coalesces.
Why Don’t Iraqis and Afghans Embrace Democracy?
There are other reasons besides the bad example we set why states we occupy fail to jump through the U.S. democracy hoop.
Statement of Phyllis Bennis in advance of President Obama’s speech detailing ‘the end of the war in Iraq’
The U.S. occupation of Iraq continues on a somewhat smaller scale, with 50,000 troops. These are combat troops, “re-missioned” by the Pentagon with new tasks, but even Secretary of Defense Gates admits they will have continuing combat capability and will continue counter-terrorism operations. The 4500 Special Forces among them will continue their “capture or kill” raids while building up the Iraqi Special Operations Forces as an El Salvador-style death squad.
Can We Talk?
Law became sexy in the mid-1980s. I still find this a bewildering transformation in American society. At the time, I thought that there could be nothing quite so boring as a court case or a legal brief. But then the TV show L.A. Law debuted in 1986, and lawyers never looked so good. The following year, Scott Turow published Presumed Innocent, and several years after that John Grisham brought out his second novel, The Firm. U.S. publishing was never the same.