A well known measure of the cost of America’s most recent wars in the Middle East is around $1.5 trillion. That’s true if you’re only interested in what the Department of Defense has spent, but that doesn’t actually measure the cost to Americans of prosecuting the war. To get a better measure of what the […]
“President Trump , Enough is Enough”
Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, says that enough is enough. Trump should eject the neocon generals from his White House and proceed with the America First policy he campaigned on. Scheuer writes: A necessary war — one in which America’s survival is at stake — requires the relentless annihilation of […]
A Neutral United States?
Former CIA Chief of the bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer writes, For now, however, the beginning of wisdom is to look at what is going on in Iraq and Syria and see it clearly. In both places all of those folks that multiple U.S. administrations have identified as enemies of America are killing each other…. This […]
Canadian Sniper Makes Record Breaking Kill Shot on ISIS Attacker
As Iraqi forces came under fire from ISIS attackers, a Canadian special forces sniper came to their aid, from over two miles away. The Canadian sniper, along with his spotter, made a record breaking shot that killed one of the attackers and disrupted the assault. The Globe and Mail reports: The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Thursday […]
Trump Hammers the $6 Trillion Middle East Folly
Andrew Bracevich backs up President Trump’s denunciation of the $6 trillion America has spent in the Middle East, with little to show for it today. The region seems as unstable and perhaps even more menacing than it ever has. Bracevich writes at The American Conservative: “America has spent approximately six trillion dollars in the Middle […]
Contractors and Mercenaries All Over Northern Iraq
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, writing at The American Conservative, tells readers about the fast moving scene for mercenaries and contractors in the Middle East. Not unlike the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—where private military contractors fed, trained, equipped, and protected U.S. military forces “on the ground” in unprecedented numbers—an escalation of hired security forces in a hot […]
Scheuer: It is Time to Put America First
Originally posted August 11, 2015. Former CIA bin-Laden unit Chief Michael Scheuer, writes at non-intervention.com, “return to General Washington’s foreign-policy legacy by immediately proclaiming the end of U.S. interventionism, the termination of support for all states and groups in the Middle East, the U.S. withdrawal from NATO, and the resumption of America’s most effective national […]
The Joint Launch to Defeat ISIS
This is an eye opening analysis by Leith Fadel of Al-Masdar News. He claims that Baghdad and Damascus are coordinating a major offensive against the IS and this coordination is being accomplished through Tehran. The Syrian and Iraq armies are no strangers to war; but, they have never coordinated with one another, despite their shared interest […]
Is Iraq Ready to Blow?
W. Patrick Lang, former U.S Military Intelligence officer, explains to readers: The post colonial construct called “Iraq” had been held together since its creation by force and coercion while it festered or fermented (take your pick) in its progress of evolving towards something like internal coherence. We destroyed that and believed that the artificialities of […]
Former Iraq Officers Are IS Leaders
From The American Conservative’s John Hay in The Deciders: On May 9, 2003, President Bush appointed Bremer [Paul] to the top civilian post in Iraq. … Bremer arrived in Baghdad on May 12 to take charge of the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA. In his first two weeks at his post, Bremer issued two orders […]
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