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Yemen Inflamed (US Military Presence Abroad, US Wars and Military Action)

The mob that breached the US embassy was angry about an anti-Muslim film—but the country’s resentment of US policy runs much deeper.

Adam Baron
Dumb and Dumber (Foreign Policy, World Leaders, US Military Presence Abroad)

Obama’s “Smart Power’ foreign policy not smart at all.

John Feffer
Afghanistan’s Base Bonanza (Foreign Policy, Transitional Governments, US Military Presence Abroad)

Total tops Iraq at that war’s height.

Nick Turse
The Best Laid Plans (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

How quickly will the United States leave Afghanistan?

Tom Engelhardt
Tom Engelhardt: How Did the US President Become the Assassin-in-Chief? (Foreign Policy, World Leaders, US Military Presence Abroad)

Drones have regularized a program of assassinations. 

Francis Reynolds
How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan—or America (Foreign Policy, Iraqi Reconstruction and Occupation, US Military Presence Abroad)

A guide to disaster at home and abroad.

Peter Van Buren
Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad (Foreign Policy, US Military Presence Abroad)

How two administrations and both parties made illegality the American way of life.

Alfred W. McCoy
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

The election year outsourcing that no one is talking about.

Nick Turse
Mission Failure: Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, Guns and Gun Control, US Military Presence Abroad)

A message written in blood that no one wants to hear.

Tom Engelhardt
The Nature of the US Military Presence in Africa (Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, US Military Presence Abroad)

An exchange between Colonel Tom Davis and TomDispatch Associate Editor Nick Turse about military involvement in Africa.

Nick Turse

Blogs

Afghanistan: It's Time for a Ceasefire, and Negotiations
Bob Dreyfuss

Gilles Dorronsoro, an iconoclastic visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, says Pakistan can deliver the Taliban to the bargaining table. It's time to try it.

September 24, 2010
The Other Side of the New American Foundation: The Afghan 'War of Necessity'
Bob Dreyfuss

A former Cheney aide Michael Waltz blasts Obama at a New America Foundation forum, following the Foundation's recent internal disagreement over the war in Afghanistan.
 

September 14, 2010
The Afghanistan Study Group Challenges US Strategy, With Flawed but Useful Report
Bob Dreyfuss

Will the "Team B"–style approach open the debate over the Afghan war, in which the establishment has largely closed ranks in support of a failing strategy?

September 10, 2010
Biden Aide Refuses to Rule Out Continuing US Occupation in Iraq
Bob Dreyfuss

Tony Blinken says that the US intends to remove the rest of troops in 2011, but he won't say that they'll leave even if Iraq falls apart. And, he says, there is no dialogue with Iran about Iraq's future.

September 8, 2010
Unstable Iraq May Draw Obama Back to War
Bob Dreyfuss

President Obama has pledged to get the rest of US forces out of Iraq in 2011. But Iraq is still unstable and politically explosive, and it is increasingly in Iran's orbit. All that may cause Obama to reconsider his plans to pull out.

August 31, 2010
Women, the Taliban and That 'Time' Cover
Bob Dreyfuss

Whatever reason the United States has for being in Afghanistan, it has nothing to do with the plight of Afghan women.

August 9, 2010
War Opposition Grows As 102 House Dems, 12 Republicans Oppose Obama's Afghan Surge
John Nichols

House approves "emergency" Afghan war funding, but 114 members vote "no" in one of the strongest shows of antiwar sentiment since the Vietnam era.

July 28, 2010
Obama Maneuvers to Contain China: Is He Using the Pentagon to Assert Declining American Power in Asia?
Bob Dreyfuss

Dumb and dumber: Obama edges toward a confrontation with China, the rising superpower.

July 27, 2010
As WikiLeaks Shake Washington, Congressmen Propose Vote to Exit Pakistan
John Nichols

The House will vote on whether to continue funding the occupation of Afghanistan—and on whether to get US troops out of Pakistan.

July 27, 2010
Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?
John Nichols

Pentagon Papers player sees "immediate parallels" between those who now leak details of Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and what he did during Vietnam.

 

July 26, 2010
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