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Peter van Buren asks what the Middle East would look like if we hadn’t helped

Summary: Today Peter van Buren examines the madness that is the core of America’s foreign policy — our relationship to the Middle East. We have set the region afire, with consequences unknowable. Until we learn from our mistakes, we’ll continue to make them. Second of 2 posts today. What If They Gave a War and …

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Peter Van Buren explains “What We Lost in Iraq and Washington in 2009-2012”

Summary:  Today we have an account of one man’s experience doing the right thing in the New America.  He dared to tell us the truth about the Iraq War.  We repaid him with illegal punishments and a broken career (the whistleblower laws, like all laws today, were meaningless) — pour l’encouragement d’les autres. I have nothing to add other than: please read this, read …

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