When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and effectively ended the Cold War, there was tremendous relief and a sense of hope for the future. One writer even boldly declared that it marked “The End of History" and, as a natural ...
Barack Obama campaigned for president on a promise to end the war in Iraq and "finish the job against al Qaeda in Afghanistan." More than two years after he took the oath of office, American forces remain in Afghanistan and ...
Before the United States plunges into a third war in the Middle East, let us think this one through, as we did not the last two. What would be the purpose of establishing a no-fly zone over Libya? According to advocates, to keep ...
If actions speak louder than words, President Obama is cutting America free of George Bush’s wars and coming home. For his bottom line Tuesday night was that all U.S. forces will be out of Iraq by mid-2011 and the U.S. footprint ...
Gauging politicians and pundits’ various reactions to President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize last week was amusing. Even more amusing was the reaction from American conservatives. Wrote Rush Limbaugh in an e-mail to the ...
Whenever I discuss the colossal mistake that was (is) the Iraq war and the embarrassing lack of WMDs, some defender of that war always insists that “everyone” thought Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. ...
In two successive editorials in the Washington Post, George Will has officially announced that it's time to bring our national boondoggles to an end and begin pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Said Will of Iraq: After almost 6 1/2 ...
In Britain, they"re getting antsy about Obama's war " the "Af-Pak" [.pdf] war, that is. Without the poodle Tony Blair to cover for us, Britain's ruling Labor Party " decisively smacked down in the recent elections to ...
Moscow, no doubt, delights in the U.S. military's reenactment of the Soviet’s Afghan boondoggle. But do America’s failures in the Middle East spell a conflict between the U.S. and Russia in the near future? ...
“No one will say this publicly, but the true fact is we are all talking about our exit strategy from Afghanistan. We are getting out. It may take a couple of years, but we are all looking to get out.” Thus did a ...
Back in January I threatened to inflict on Takimag readers a series of articles on how to convince patriotic conservatives that it's time for America to scale back significantly on the military spending that wastes so vast a portion of ...
“The situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating,” said President Obama, as he announced deployment of 17,000 more U.S. troops. “I’m absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the ...
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