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Petraeus’ Failed Legacy of Nation-Building in Afghanistan

From On November 14, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Further to Jeremy Scahill’s reporting on General David Petraeus’s impact on the CIA is a post at the Afghanistan Study Group by Mary Kaszynski on the costs and feasiblity of nation-building in the war-torn country:

Bing West, assistant Secretary of Defense for President Reagan, had this to say about [...]

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Major US-UK Tiff Over Legality of Iran Strike

From On October 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Amidst reports that Great Britain has denied the US military use of important British bases for an assault against Iran, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters on Friday that whenever the DOD considers military action “we do it within the legal confines…of this country.” The US [...]

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Overwrought Empire

From On October 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Discrediting of U.S. Military Power 

By Tom Engelhardt

via Tom Dispatch (a version of this article appeared in the LA Times)

Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century.  You could say that we experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism — think of it [...]

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