US Urged to End Drone Strikes After Pentagon Says Killing 10 Afghan Civilians Was ‘Horrible Mistake’
“That was not a ‘mistake,'” said journalist Anand Giridharadas. “War crimes are not oopsies.”
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The Counterinsurgency Myth
Counterinsurgency is an incoherent approach to conquest that the US has often attempted, with little in the way of success.
Read more...9/11 Twenty Years On and On and On….
Memories of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq War, plus shaming the guilty
Read more...Port Authority Cop Who Survived 13 Hours Under Collapsed Towers Shares Message of Darkness and Light
A personal take on the collapse of the twin towers.
Read more...US Has No Intention of a Global Military Retreat Despite Biden’s Promise
The US military-industrial complex will promote remote warfare as a myriad of risks diminish worldwide security.
Read more...The Two Satans of Afghanistan – And Jimmy Carter’s Lips Are Sealed
How the Carter Administration nudged the USSR into its Afghanistan mire.
Read more...Notes on the ‘Loss’ of Afghanistan
Cleaning up some misperceptions about the US operation in Afghanistan, including the idea that it was a country.
Read more...Will Americans Who Were Right on Afghanistan Still Be Ignored?
Quelle surprise! No one is held accoutable for huge, predictable strategic and moral failures like going to Afghanistan, because profit
Read more...Afghanistan: Another Reminder for Withering Britain
Afghanistan as an echo of the end of imperial Britain.
Read more...Iran’s Huge Caspian Gas Find Is A Geopolitical Gamechanger
A new Iran gas find has the potential to supply 20% of Europe’s needs. But its pricing and delivery will be coordinated with Russia.
Read more...Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
How the Taliban outfoxed the US.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Biden Forfeits His Afghan Victory by Defending His Deep State Advisors
Biden gave a bizarre justification of the horrifically mismanaged US exit from Afghanistan, revealing his capture by intel incompetents.
Read more...The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?
Trying to make sense of Afghanistan.
Read more...Biden Follows Trump On Foreign Policy
Biden’s hawkishness has resulted in his preserving many of Trump’s foreign policy positions, or worse, upping the ante on them.
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
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