The Presidential campaign rolls on in the seventh year since 9/11, with the only debate about the Long War being in which nations America should fight. We see this even the speeches of the most “liberal” candidate, Senator Barack Obama. I recommend reading “The World Beyond Iraq”, his speech about national security given at Fayetteville, …
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The Internet is our collective mind made visible, more so than print, radio, and television. It allows us to see the thought processes of our community. The recent “silly swarm” of blog posts about the “cut cable fever” in February (see here and here) showed the implusive and wild thinking of the broad community of those writing and …
Will we bomb Iran, now that Admiral Fallon is gone? Read More »
Wolf Pangloss wrote an interesting and detailed reply to Part I of my series on The Long War. In it he describes why Iran is our enemy. As a timely rebuttal see “The Iranian Challenge” in 19 November 2007 issue of The Nation, by Trita Parsi (Wikipedia entry). He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of …
Part X of a series about America’s new Long War First, we would have to adopt a realistic strategic goal, one that might be attainable. The present strategic goal of turning Afghanistan into a modern, secular, capitalist state with “equal rights for women” and similar claptrap lies in the in realm of fantasy. — William …
One step beyond Lind: What is America’s geopolitical strategy? Read More »
Part VIII of a series about America’s new Long War The word that one hears again and again here, but is so rare in the domestic political debate, is “complex.” The war is changing at least every six months, and every area of the country — even every neighborhood in Baghdad — has a different …
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