Author: Ivan Eland

George W. Bush Fails to Learn from Jimmy Carter's Naive Human Rights Policy by Dr. Ivan Eland In trying to find a rhetorical justification for invading the sovereign nation of […]

Saber Rattling Against Syria by Dr. Ivan Eland According to The New York Times, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted that the suicide killers of Rafik Hariri, the former […]

Iraq: Purple or Still Black and Blue? by Dr. Ivan Eland In the rich of tradition of “inside the beltway” political gimmicks, the all-too-giddy congressional Republicans at President Bush’s recent […]

Are Iraqi Elections a Panacea?  by Dr. Ivan Eland President Bush, in his second inaugural address, used soaring idealistic rhetoric to tell us that he was going to democratize the […]

Should Iran Be The Next Target?  by Dr. Ivan Eland In a recent article in The New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the Bush administration has conducted missions […]

U.S. Foreign Policy: Question All Assumptions  by Dr. Ivan Eland Post-World War II U.S. foreign policy, including that of the Bush administration, has been based on certain assumptions about the […]

Mortgaging the Future of Our Armed Forces by Dr. Ivan Eland When private companies cook the books, the perpetrators are indicted for fraud and thrown in jail. When politicians in […]

Greater Government Spending Has Not Enhanced National Security  by Dr. Ivan Eland Since the September 11 attacks, real (inflation-adjusted) spending on defense has increased 23 percent, even when the whopping […]

Kill Missile Defense Now by Dr. Ivan Eland The most recent among many testing glitches of the Bush administration missile defense program should remind us that this exorbitant and heavily […]