Is the Real Problem “Isolationism” or Bipartisan Aggression? June 9, 2008Ivan Eland President George W. Bush and Democratic and Republican luminaries broke ground recently at the future gleaming home of […]
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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
Ominous Opposition to a Long-Term U.S. Military Presence in Iraq
Ominous Opposition to a Long-Term U.S. Military Presence in Iraq June 2, 2008Ivan Eland At the behest of Iraqi Shi’i leader Moktada al-Sadr, his powerful faction staged a formidable protest […]
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Negotiating with “Terrorists and Radicals”
Negotiating with “Terrorists and Radicals” May 27, 2008Ivan Eland It has been suggested that it is hypocritical of President Bush to implicitly attack Barack Obama for his outrageous suggestion that […]
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Bob Gates’s Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon
Bob Gates’s Hope to Reform the Pentagon Is Barking at the Moon by Ivan Eland In a recent speech, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pleaded with the armed services to […]
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The Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma
The Bush Administration Politicizes Tragedy in Burma by Ivan Eland From the administration that used the 9/11 tragedy to violently pursue an unrelated vendetta against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, we get […]
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Reverend Wright Is Not Totally Wrong
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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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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