He Lies, You Die (in Iraq): Troops to Stay Forever
Bush, before scurrying away from Hague prosecutors, signed an agreement with Iraq to withdraw all American troops by 12/31/2011 (the mother of all New Year’s Eves). Obama, as a candidate, said he would...
View ArticleA Child’s Treasury of Tweets on Syria
(Follow me on Twitter as @wemeantwell or I’ll just keep repeating myself here) US isn’t the world’s policeman Obama says. No, we’re the world’s George Zimmerman. The question no journalist will ask...
View ArticleGuilty! UN Report on Syria Does Not Say What John Kerry Says it Said
(This post originally appeared on Fire Dog Lake) The UN released its report on chemical weapons use in Syria. You can read it here. It’s not that long, just some forty pages including legal appendices....
View ArticleBREAKING: John Kerry Proclaims End to “Monroe Doctrine” Not Relevant for 100...
Remember back in 8th grade U.S. History with Mr. O’Neil, the alcoholic football coach who had to teach at least one class to stay on the payroll? He taught you about the Monroe Doctrine (go ahead and...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Superstar
“John Kerry has the skill, toughness, and ego to be a great secretary of state,” says Aaron David Miller on ForeignPolicy.com. So that’s that. But don’t stop there. Miller goes on to say: This sense of...
View ArticleThe British Empire, the Eagle and the Bear: Non-Options for Crimea and Ukraine
“You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests,” John Kerry said on Meet the Press. “This is an act of aggression that is completely trumped up in terms of...
View ArticleHolder and Mueller Spent $7.8 Million Taxpayer Dollars on Personal Travel
With income tax season in the U.S. in full swing, all thoughts turn to cheating. It has been said that perhaps some Americans are not fully honest on their tax reporting. Some may “forget” to report...
View ArticleThings Fall Apart: Iraq
The mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are mostly based on the same flawed idea: that the world is a chessboard on which the U.S. makes moves, or manipulates proxies to make moves, that either defeat,...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Accidentally Sanctions Self
“I’m still not sure exactly what happened,” said gaffe-prone, beleaguered Secretary of State John Kerry, “but I’m told I agreed to sanctions on myself.” In an exclusive, Kerry explained his mistake....
View ArticleKerry Says U.S. Troops Could Deploy to Iraq
For those who argued with the theory about a month ago that interceding in Iraq for “humanitarian purposes” to help the Yazidis was just a subterfuge to have the U.S. re-enter a messy war that...
View ArticleHearts, Minds and Dead Sunnis in Iraq
A critical part of America’s plan to resolve all issues left unresolved after nine years of war and occupation is to divide the indigenous Sunnis from the “foreign” Sunnis, i.e., ISIS, and “unite”...
View ArticleIraq: How Many Turning Points and Milestones Until We Win?
Meanwhile, 71 percent of Americans now support airstrikes in Iraq, and 65 percent in Syria. Secretary of State John Kerry said that the formation of a new Iraqi government was “a major milestone” for...
View ArticleFighting in Iraq Until Hell Freezes Over
I wanted to offer a wry chuckle before we headed into the heavy stuff about Iraq, so I tried to start this article with a suitably ironic formulation. You know, a déjà-vu-all-over-again kinda thing. I...
View ArticleThe Future of Mosul is Kobane
It was necessary to destroy the Syrian town of Kobane (above) in order to save it from ISIS. The rubble and ruin of what was once a place more than 200,000 people lived is now free. Want to know the...
View ArticleIs the U.S. Paying Off Iran to Keep the Nuke Negotiations Alive?
Negotiations require some back and forth, demonstrations of good will and good intent, and massive pay offs. Wait, what? The Obama administration in January handed over $490 million in cash to Iran,...
View ArticleThe Iranian Ascendancy
The U.S. is running around in circles in the Middle East, patching together coalitions here, acquiring strange bedfellows there, and in location after location trying to figure out who the enemy of its...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Accord: Balance of Power in the Middle East Just Changed
Don’t sweat the details of the July nuclear accord between the United States and Iran. What matters is that the calculus of power in the Middle East just changed in significant ways. Washington and...
View ArticleMini-World War Underway in Syria: The Players
While Secretary of State John Kerry (personal slogan: “Did you know I was still Secretary of State?”) bleats about reaching some sort of imaginary ceasefire with the Russians during negotiations in...
View ArticleKerry Phones Serbian PM Over Diplomats Killed in U.S. Libya Strike
So, those American airstrikes recently in Libya, the ones for freedom and to defeat ISIS and banish Ant Man to hell? Yeah, darn it, they also killed two Serbian diplomats. But don’t worry, America’s...
View ArticleState Dept Staffs Syria Ceasefire Violations Hotline — With Non-Arabic Speakers
Is there a better way to ensure no troublesome violations of John Kerry’s signature ceasefire in Syria get reported than by staffing the hotline where violations are to be reported by Syrians with...
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