Reverend Wright Is Not Totally Wrong by Ivan Eland Although Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. has treated us to nutty and racist rants, which included saying that the even more bigoted […]
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Author: Ivan Eland
Bush’s War on Terror Dangerously Counterproductive
Bush’s War on Terror Dangerously Counterproductive by Ivan Eland At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon—the first large suicide […]
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Quagmires and Wacky Personnel Policies Are Straining the All-Volunteer Military
Quagmires and Wacky Personnel Policies Are Straining the All-Volunteer Military by Ivan Eland Enmeshed in two military occupations that have turned into well-publicized quagmires, the Army and Marines are understandably […]
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Dangerously Counterproductive War on Terror
Dangerously Counterproductive War on Terror by Ivan Eland At the passing of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon—the first large suicide bombing […]
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Things Unsaid at the Petraeus Hearings
Things Unsaid at the Petraeus Hearings by Ivan Eland According to General David H. Petraeus’s progress report to Congress on Iraq, the latest worst threat to the shaky U.S. position […]
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Executive or Imperial Branch?
Executive or Imperial Branch? by Ivan Eland More memos recently have surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department's Office of […]
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Yoo-surping Power for the Executive Branch
Yoo-surping Power for the Executive Branch by Ivan Eland More memos have recently surfaced that were written early in the Bush administration by John C. Yoo from the Justice Department’s […]
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Putting Lipstick on a Pig: More Doublespeak on the Situation in Iraq
Putting Lipstick on a Pig: More Doublespeak on the Situation in Iraq by Ivan Eland Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak on the […]
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Key to Getting a More Restrained Foreign Policy: Modify Defense Subcontracting?
Key to Getting a More Restrained Foreign Policy: Modify Defense Subcontracting? by Ivan Eland During the early days of the Clinton administration, Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs […]
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Five years of war: Let the country divide, and get out
Five years of war: Let the country divide, and get out by Ivan Eland As the fifth anniversary of the United States’ second-longest (next to Vietnam) and second-costliest (next to […]
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