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Bush Administration
Bush Administration news and analysis from The Nation
June 22, 2022
The Perils of Shaping a Recalcitrant World
Relying on military power to shape events in distant countries requires very deep pockets and infinite patience—neither of which we currently possess.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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Alex Jordan
January 5, 2022
2 Decades of Military Force Got Us Nowhere
Twenty years of war, around $6 trillion, and nearly 1 million corpses later, there are now more terrorist groups than in 2001.
Nick Turse
August 17, 2021
If Liz Cheney’s Assigning Blame for an “Epic Failure” in Afghanistan, She Can Start With Her Father
Dick Cheney created the mess Joe Biden is cleaning up.
John Nichols
August 4, 2020
Government Accountability Has Been Long Gone in the US
From the beginning of the War on Terrorism to the 2008 recession, to the coronavirus pandemic, US government accountability has been missing in action.
Karen J. Greenberg
February 14, 2020
Our Forever Wars in 6 Questions
After 18-plus years of seemingly endless conflict, our government owes us answers.
Tom Engelhardt
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December 12, 2019
Military Officials Sent Us to Fight, Kill, and Die in an Unwinnable War
The Washington Post
’s Afghanistan Papers framed in stark terms the incompetence and immorality of the officials under whom I served.
Maggie Seymour
July 16, 2019
The Transpartisan Revolt Against America’s Endless Wars
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s one of the few areas where a left-right coalition can jell.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
March 26, 2019
Why Are We Above International Law?
The Trump administration’s rejection of the International Criminal Court is the latest example of America’s toxic exceptionalism.
Rebecca Gordon
March 26, 2019
It Is Long Past Time for a National Reckoning With the Catastrophic Costs of Endless War
We need space for real dissent from the views of a foreign policy establishment that has so clearly failed us.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
December 5, 2018
New Cold War Dangers
The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in the Kerch Strait illustrates again how this Cold War is more dangerous that was its predecessor.
Stephen F. Cohen
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