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Afghanistan - the Proxy War by Andrew Bacevich |
 October 12, 2009
NO SERIOUS person thinks that
Afghanistan - remote, impoverished, barely qualifying as a nation-state
- seriously matters to the United States. Yet with the war in its ninth
year, the passions raised by the debate over how to proceed there are
serious indeed.
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 July 4, 2009
NOT EVERY day, and not even
every decade, does the Supreme Court rebuke the Military Advocate
General. The last time this happened was 20 years ago, when the
Advocate General refused to issue a proper indictment against an
officer who ordered his men to break the arms and legs of a bound
Palestinian. The officer argued that he considered this to be his duty,
after the Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, had called for “breaking
their bones”.
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NATO scuttles US plan to encircle Russia by F. William Engdahl |
 NATO ministers in Brussels have decided to ignore US wishes and to delay the admission of Ukraine and of Georgia in effect indefinitely in what the Washington Administration is sheepishly trying to claim is a positive 'compromise.' The decision, following EU member state alarm last August over the prospect of European states having to go to war at some point against Russia over an incalculable despot in the Caucasus or in Kiev who decided to provoke Moscow to react, was simply too much.
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Petreus and Presidential Politics |
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 From 1964 until 1968, General William Westmoreland presented a constant stream of shining, buoyant and uplifting assessments of the potential for American victory in Vietnam. When Westmoreland became Commander of US forces in Vietnam, there were a mere 15,000 troops with boots on the ground. After four years of Westmoreland’s misguided optimism, 535,000 troops had their boots ankle deep in the quagmire of the Vietnamese jungles. In an age long before the internet, Westmoreland’s positive messaging for increasing America’s commitment to military intervention in Vietnam received massive media attention and bolstered public support for what would become an abysmally depressing war.
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World War W by Michael Carmichael - October 10, 2006 |
 North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device reveals the latest failure of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush and Richard Cheney administration.
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