Moscow, no doubt, delights in the U.S. military's reenactment of the Soviet’s Afghan boondoggle. But do America’s failures in the Middle East spell a conflict between the U.S. and Russia in the near future? When I was a boy my Dad often would say: "Don"t ...
As president, Barack Obama "would reject the Bush Doctrine of preemption and regime change and replace it with a doctrine of prevention and cooperation and, ladies and gentlemen, this is the biggest ticket item that we have in this election," said Senator Biden on 2 October 2008. Well, as a ...
Because U.S. political leaders are ignorant of history, don"t give a hoot about it, or both, Washington's post-9/11 Afghan adventure was based on a plan for occupation and nation-building that history had long ago shown to be the road to defeat. Adding poignancy to the coming disaster is the ...
