Bosnia Revisited August 6, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa VIENNA—As I look at “The Kiss,” Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s delicate masterpiece, in one of Vienna’s Belvedere palaces, my head fills with the memories […]
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Tag: Foreign Policy & Military & War
Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? – The Postman
We Don’t Need a War on Terrorism
We Don’t Need a War on Terrorism August 1, 2008Ivan Eland Many opponents of the Bush administration’s invasion and occupation of Iraq have always argued that this conflict is an irrelevant […]
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Did the Surge Work?
Did the Surge Work? July 28, 2008Ivan Eland The media, egged on by John McCain and his campaign, are going to twist the arm of Barack Obama until he cries […]
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CENTCOM’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony
CENTCOM’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony July 22, 2008Robert Higgs Many people deny that the U.S. government presides over a global empire. If you speak of U.S. imperialism, they […]
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Are 400,000 Terrorists, 44 Terrorist Groups, and Five State Sponsors of Terror Trying to Attack…
Are 400,000 Terrorists, 44 Terrorist Groups, and Five State Sponsors of Terror Trying to Attack the United States? July 21, 2008Ivan Eland After having begun a series of investigative stories […]
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An Aggressive and Hypocritical U.S. Policy Toward Iran
An Aggressive and Hypocritical U.S. Policy Toward Iran July 14, 2008Ivan Eland The chauvinistic American news media have focused on evil Iran’s missile tests and the indignant Bush administration reaction, […]
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Obama and Latin America
Obama and Latin America July 2, 2008Alvaro Vargas Llosa WASHINGTON—Barack Obama recently gave a major speech on Latin America in which he sought to contrast his ideas with President Bush’s […]
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Can the Air Force Be Reformed?
Can the Air Force Be Reformed? June 30, 2008Ivan Eland During the tenure of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the Army was the military service in the doghouse. Under his […]
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Lessons for Iraq from the Former Yugoslavia
Lessons for Iraq from the Former Yugoslavia June 23, 2008Ivan Eland President George W. Bush recently visited Slovenia for a summit between the United States and the 27-nation European Union. […]
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Ungrateful Allies
Ungrateful Allies June 16, 2008Ivan Eland Recently, hundreds of thousands of South Koreans filled the streets of Seoul near the U.S. Embassy to protest the South Korean government’s decision to […]
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