American Politics and the World… Post #57 – The Torture Report 9 Dec 201427 Feb 2017 George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are back in the news, defending all the true patriots who brought the United States into the “Global War on Terror” after 9/11. Determined…
BLOG… Post #55 – Obama’s Wars: Deeper into the Quagmire 25 Nov 201427 Feb 2017 President Obama continues to do everything to fulfill his prediction of September 12 that the Middle East wars will long outlast his administration. At that time (see my post #47,…
BLOG… Post #47 – Mission Impossible 29 Sep 201427 Feb 2017 The New York Times editorial board has finally awakened to Obama’s “strategy” in the “war” (as it is officially called now) against ISIS. It is essentially the same strategy that…
BLOG… Post #45 – America on Crusade: Now It’s Obama’s Turn 14 Sep 201427 Feb 2017 George F. Kennan, one of America’s greatest statesmen, warned in his classic American Diplomacy (1951) and many times thereafter of the country’s tendency to universalize its self-conceptions and its aims,…
BLOG… Post #43 – Peacemaking or Provocations in Ukraine’s Crisis? 1 Sep 201427 Feb 2017 Call it aggression, invasion, incursion, or an illegal border crossing—whatever you call it, the fact remains that Russia has now become a direct participant in Ukraine’s civil war. To his…
BLOG… Post #42 – The Lone Ranger Rides Again: America’s Return to Iraq 26 Aug 201427 Feb 2017 In an interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times on August 8 (www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/opinion/president-obama-thomas-l-friedman-iraq-and-world-affairs.html?), President Obama stressed that the US was only fighting the Islamic State (IS, or…
BLOG… Post #34 – The Madness in Gaza 13 Jul 201427 Feb 2017 War never achieves political goals, but just destroys the people,” he said. “War is the language of the ignorant, and it is fought by the ignorant.” The speaker was an…
In the Human Interest - Mel Gurtov 