Unilateral French military action against suspected Al Qaeda militants in Mali, justified as an extension of the global “war on terror,” threatens to further destabilize the Islamic world as the United States intensifies its own involvement in the conflict. Internal chaos in the North African nation has created a power vacuum in parts of the [...]
More signs are pointing towards as many as two new arenas for U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, with strategic and political circumstances putting Syria and Iran in American cross-hairs before this November’s “historic” presidential election. While much of the campaign is framed by the media as a clash of vast ideological differences between [...]
“WE CANNOT FIGHT WARS BY POLLS”: LEON PANETTA JUST HAD HIS OWN “DICK CHENEY” MOMENT (Army Times) ` In March of 2008, with the war in Iraq dragging on and every opinion poll showing rising public anger over the American occupation of that country, then-Vice President Dick Cheney famously dismissed public anger by responding [...]
America’s war in Afghanistan, now slogging into its 11th year of active operations, may be coming to an end sooner than the US government and military officials have publicly stated. If comments from Barack Obama’s secretary of defense are to be believed, US troops may be leaving in significant numbers by the middle of next year. [...]
“WE DO A LOT OF TRAVELING — A LOT MORE THAN AFGHANISTAN OR IRAQ.” (Tom Dispatch) Most Americans probably believe that the operation that ostensibly killed Osama bin Laden earlier this year in Pakistan, a secret assassin strike team of U.S. Special Operations troops, was an extraordinary force put together as a unique mission to [...]
By Glen Ford Leon Panetta, the former congressman and Clinton chief of staff, has no background in any of America’s spy agencies, foreign or domestic. And that’s a wonderful reason for Barack Obama to nominate him to head the CIA.. Critics of Obama’s choice of Panetta, a Washington insider, argue that the CIA chief should [...]
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