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How America’s Wars Have Created Piles of Debt (And Little Strategic Benefit)

August 24, 2018

How America’s Wars Have Created Piles of Debt (And Little Strategic Benefit) America risks the return of the very fiscal and foreign policy perils that Walter Lippmann warned about almost a century ago. When Defense Secretary James N. Mattis spoke at the 2018 Center for the National Interest Distinguished Service Award dinner in late July, […]

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How Afghans View the Endless US War

November 2, 2017

How Afghans View the Endless US War To understand why the 16-year-old U.S. war in Afghanistan continues to fail requires a look from the ground where Afghans live and suffer, a plight breeding strong opposition to the U.S. presence, explains Kathy Kelly. On a recent Friday at the Afghan Peace Volunteers‘ (APV) Borderfree Center, here […]

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Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War

July 12, 2015

Fallout from Reagan’s Afghan War In the 1980s, President Reagan funded and armed Islamic fundamentalists to defeat a Soviet-backed secular regime in Afghanistan. Now, one of those ex-U.S. clients is throwing his support behind the brutal Islamic State, a lesson about geopolitical expediency, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. In a blast from the past in […]

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Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes

July 4, 2015

Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes Exclusive: The neocon strategy of “regime change” has proved financially costly and strategically disastrous – setting almost the entire Middle East on fire – but almost no lessons have been learned, no accountability assessed, and no relevant questions asked, writes ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk. Apparently, the United States, perhaps Great Britain […]

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America as Dangerous Flailing Beast

June 26, 2015

America as Dangerous Flailing Beast Despite pretty talk about “democracy” and “human rights,” U.S. leaders have become the world’s chief purveyors of chaos and death – from Vietnam through Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and many other unfortunate nations, a dangerous dilemma addressed by John Chuckman. When I think of America’s place in the world today, […]

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