Americans are rightly sick of war. Iraq has been a disaster, the wrong war. As Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ, no weapons of mass destruction there. And Saddam Hussein? Saddam, Ms. Noonan writes, was “the garbage-pail lid who kept the garbage of his nation from spilling out.” Now there is a serious threat […]
Prudence and Restraint
In Reason, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Chris Preble takes proponents of intervention in Syria like Hillary Clinton to task. Clinton criticizes Obama’s failure to intervene more in Syria as the catalyst for bringing ISIS to power in the Eastern regions of the country. Preble wonders who Clinton would have allied with. And who, exactly, we were supposed […]
Democrats and Republicans: Foolish Interventionists
With Maliki out the door in Iraq, the Cato Institute’s Chris Preble concludes, “While President Obama’s approval rating goes down, including his handling of foreign policy, it isn’t obvious that the GOP can turn this to its advantage.” Any time Iraq is in the news, Americans are reminded about those who pushed for war there […]
Another Middle East Debacle?
A new air war in Iraq or Syria or, as Pat Buchanan asks, World War III for Iraq? Pat writes, “Congress must be forced to debate and vote on this war so we can hold them accountable for what is to come.” Pat points out, “Finally, why is this our fight, 6,ooo miles away, and […]
Obama: Foolish, Inexperienced, Weak
Former head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit Michael Scheuer spent his career developing strategies to keep America safe. Here Scheuer explains how “Obama’s action in Iraq will be seen for what it is: another in a long-series of U.S.-led interventions in the Muslim world that has given added strength and momentum to the Islamist […]
Three Reasons to Say Out of Iraq
The Cato Institute’s Ben Friedman lays out the proper course for America. The major reason using force to defend Iraq’s government is a bad idea is that it always was. Advocates of going into Iraq, like advocates of staying in Iraq in past years, tend to employ sunk costs logic, where the pursuit of a dumb […]
Unconstitutional War Dogs
Here Pat Buchanan takes War Dogs John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Peter King to task for blowing ISIS out of proportion. Calling ISIS an “existential threat,” the War Dogs would go to war today without Congressional authorization against an enemy that hasn’t attacked America. As Pat rightly asks, what kind of constitutionalists are these so-called Republicans? […]
Iraq Christians Fleeing
In the face of radical Muslim ISIS insurgents advancing across the country, Iraq’s Christian and Yazidi populations are fleeing for their lives.
Iraq: Marvelous Phenomena
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 […]
Iraq: We Had it Won
The neocons aren’t the only group to champion the Iraq War. It was a bipartisan effort going back to 2003 when it was supported by Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Madeline Albright points out Cato’s Gene Healy. And with a 14% success rate for democracy at gunpoint, you’d think we might have learned a thing […]
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