no true war is bad? — crooked timber

By war, just to be definitionally precise, I mean things like the 30 Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the conflict that started with World War 1 and ended (probably) with the Korean War Armistice (arguably at VJ Day). Lots of other wars, of course, imperial misadventures (Soviets in..

trump fires bolton as national security adviser

Most recently, Bolton had advised the president against meeting he had planned with Taliban at Camp David to complete negotiations to end Afghanistan. He was absent June when Trump made decision to meet North Korean at the Demilitarized Zone Bolton instead traveled to Mongolia to meet..

in military affairs, quantity really does matter

But it is hard to do so when the force is also covering such hot spots as the Korean peninsula, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iranian activity in the Gulf, western Africa, Somalia, the Baltic region, drug smuggling on both sides of Latin America, and exercises with various partners, among other..

state of the union one day later

Trump’s a warmonger: Without me, Trump says, we’d be at war on the Korean peninsula. Also, I’m looking at pulling out of Afghanistan. . Trump hates women: Except he got even the prune-faced white-clad Democratic women up dancing (and chanting “USA! ..

the intelligence ‘community’

In doing so, they provided testimony that seemed to contradict virtually every aspect of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, including the decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, the threat posed by Iran, North Korean denuclearization, and improving relations with..

all wars are illegal, let’s act!

North Korea and United States Will Real Aggressor Please Stand Down, United States used violence to install Syngman Rhee in the 1940's killed millions of Koreans, in both South and North, in Korean War. Currently the US is involved in wars Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, Yemen..

monthly review

Despite the often neoconservative nature of Bush administration's top operatives, they have had the broad backing of the greater part of the in the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, the War on Terrorism as whole, the huge military buildup, etc.. By in the Unlike Korean War or Vietnam War,..

how we got the iran deal and why we'll miss it

With the hawkish John Bolton now driving Iran policy as Trump’s national security adviser and the president seeming to want to ingratiate himself with Israel and Saudi Arabia, the administration appears to have replaced the Iran deal with a threat of violent regime change—a curious decision for a White..

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