Where conflict in the Middle East goes from here
The region may once again be at one of those forks in the road that dictate the fate of nations for years to come
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Friday
Wednesday
Biden-Harris should help destroy Iran’s nuclear and missile infrastructure
Biden and Harris reportedly want credit for Israel’s success, but an arsonist playing firefighter deserves no applause
Thursday
‘Blood! Blood! Blood!’: the Battle of Fallujah twenty years on
Was it worth the price paid?
Thursday
A superbly written and insightful account of the contemporary American military
General McKenzie’s fine memoir is a rich and powerful testament to the qualities that our best military commanders bring to their service to the nation
Wednesday
The fight among the olive trees
On the ground as fighting between Hezbollah and Israel intensifies
Tuesday
Israel and the making of nations
The country is a test case for the survival of nationalism everywhere
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
Why the post-Cold War era is far from over
Avoiding repetition of the errors that marred US policy in the recent past will require more than money
Tuesday
A year in Gaziantep before the earthquake
Those looking for the new Casablanca would not have been disappointed with this Turkish city
Wednesday
The missing Biden foreign policy
There’s no plan, no careful set of chess moves, just an empty void
Monday
Don’t expect much from Biden’s Middle East trip
Outcomes will likely be unimpressive
Tuesday
‘America or chaos’ is a false choice
Foreign policy leadership does not mean getting involved in every conflict
Wednesday
Did the realists underestimate Putin?
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is George W. Bush in Iraq all over again
Wednesday
Noninterventionists never win arguments
How did we arrive to the same spot we were in on the eve of the Iraq War?
Tuesday
Israel and America are drifting apart
Our interests have diverged as even the Israeli prime minister recently acknowledged
Monday
Return to Iraq
More than two millennia of Jewish history stalks the land that now encompasses the modern state of Iraq
Wednesday
The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace’
The best that can be hoped for is a ceasefire, forty years without war
Tuesday
Biden’s Pentagon wants to keep the military overstretched
The latest Global Posture Review refuses to make hard choices
Monday
Goodbye, Lebanon
Farewell to a failed state
Tuesday
Saigon and Kabul: what would Nixon say?
Alas, here we are, doomed to history repeating because of Biden’s disregard of all of the lessons of the previous debacle
