In a scathing piece at the Ron Paul Institute, former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul slams America’s interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East. Now, he explains, the neocon foreign policy approach, which has a 100 percent failure rate, has put China in the driver’s seat in the region. Paul writes: Last week […]
Bolton Says U.S. Should Have Attacked Iran as well as Iraq
At CaitlinJohnstone.com, Caitlin Johnstone hammers all the neocons who participated in deceiving Americans into the Iraq war, and who are now, after twenty years, attempting to portray the adventure as anything but a failure. Her primary target is John Bolton, who argues in his defense of the Iraq war that it would have worked if […]
Brent Scowcroft “Don’t Attack Saddam”
In March of 2015, Jordan Michael Smith wrote in The American Conservative: Any notion of Scowcroft (Brent) as merely a bland bureaucrat evaporated instantly with the publication of an op-ed he wrote for the Wall Street Journal in August 2002. Headlined “Don’t Attack Saddam,” the column stated that the Iraqi dictator had nothing to with the 9/11 […]
Why the Media Is Lying about U.S. Embassy Attacks in Baghdad
President Trump has gone a long way to dismantling Obama’s legacy in the region. But much more remains to be done, explains Erielle Davidson in The Federalist, “including a halt to American taxpayer money that has been flowing into Iranian-controlled governments in Iraq and Lebanon.” For those on the left, Ms. Davidson notes, there is […]
How Long Should America Protect the Kurds?
At The National Interest, Doug Bandow, a Cato Institute senior fellow, explains in light of President Trump’s pullback from Syria that “Not every problem can be solved by America.” Bandow pokes holes in any fantasy that America is bound to protect Kurdish militants. America saved the Kurds’ autonomy when it invaded Iraq. Then America saved […]
America Evacuating Mega-Embassy in Iraq over Iran Tensions
After spending $1.9 trillion liberating and rebuilding Iraq, and $750 billion building a Vatican City-sized embassy in the heart of Baghdad, America’s position in the country is so perilous, the fortress-like embassy is being evacuated of all non-emergency personnel. Ghassan Adnan reports in The Wall Street Journal: The U.S. ordered all its nonemergency staff to […]
Will Trump Reject the Neocon Case for Involvement in Iraq?
Cato Institute Senior Fellow, Doug Bandow, notes President Trump’s great achievements in avoiding what he calls “Full Neocon” foreign policy by beginning the exit process for American forces in Syria and Afghanistan. Bandow goes on to suggest that Trump should consider exiting Iraq too. He writes at The American Conservative (abridged): The driving force behind […]
The Dawn of the Anti-War Right
Jon Basil Utley, a friend of mine from many Cato Institute meetings, and the publisher of The American Conservative, explains one pivotal moment in the creation of the anti-war right. Back in 1990 when President George H.W. Bush was about to invade Iraq, Utley and a band of anti-war conservatives and libertarians formed a group […]
Iraqi Security Forces Cleaning Up Remains of ISIS
In Tall Afar, an Ottoman Era city where ISIS holdouts have been fighting for their lives, Iraqi forces have announced a rout of the radicals. The national army forces have said they fully liberated Tall Afar after a long engagement. Now they are chasing the last remnants of the ISIS force that had held the […]
Neocons Won’t Accept that Iraq was a Massive Blunder
Daniel Larison writes at The American Conservative that, despite the overwhelming evidence that it has been a debacle, neocons will not admit that Iraq was a massive blunder. With all the reasons Americans initially supported the war debunked (think weapons of mass destruction) and no reasonable expectation of any outcome beneficial to the United States […]
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