How Dick Cheney made Donald Trump
Instead of vilifying Cheney, MAGA-world should offer him a bouquet of appreciation
Iraq war
Tuesday
Friday
John Bolton’s AOL chat with Iran
Looks like the man with the walrus mustache got a little careless
Thursday
‘Blood! Blood! Blood!’: the Battle of Fallujah twenty years on
Was it worth the price paid?
Thursday
Tim Walz has played fast and loose with his military service record
He owes it to his fellow veterans, and the voting public, to apologize for any false impressions of combat service
Thursday
Joe Biden’s non-defense policy
There is no consistent guidance regarding American involvement in foreign conflict
Tuesday
Why do neoliberals get let off the Iraq War hook?
There are prominent liberal hawks who have somehow escaped condemnation for helping promote the invasion
Tuesday
On the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, spare us the sermons
Twenty-one years ago today, the United States committed its worst foreign policy mistake in generations
Sunday
An impressive examination of the conjoined fates of Iraq and the United States
Steve Coll’s title alludes to Homer, and his subject matter has the arc of Greek tragedy
Wednesday
It’s time for Congress to take back its war powers
The repeal of the force authorization in Iraq is a step in the right direction
Secret bioweapon labs are Putin’s MacGuffin
Expect the ruse to decline as the war rages on
Wednesday
Marking twenty years of America’s most endless war
We remain in Iraq because our objectives there keep shifting
Tuesday
No one wants to join the military anymore
Our elites’ culture war has targeted the very Americans who traditionally enlist
Tuesday
Is Putin nuts?
History shows that labeling foreign leaders as crazy sends us down a slippery slope
Wednesday
Noninterventionists never win arguments
How did we arrive to the same spot we were in on the eve of the Iraq War?
Monday
Return to Iraq
More than two millennia of Jewish history stalks the land that now encompasses the modern state of Iraq
Sunday
We are all Donald Rumsfeld
The late defense secretary is a scapegoat for the Establishment
Wednesday
Donald Rumsfeld succeeded at everything — so why did he fail in the end?
The former defense secretary died aged 88 on Thursday
Tuesday
Adios, AUMF
The votes and the stars appear aligned to sweep the authorized use of military force legislation
Monday
Joe Biden’s endless wars
The only thing coming on if Biden wins is another round of hopeless foreign interventionism and nation-building
Sunday
Pita Shack flashback
The bloody horrors that have waylaid Iraq since the 2003 invasion obliterate thoughts of its glorious past
