Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was reading an old Atlantic Monthly from November 2007 and came across this quote: We’ve got to be patient and committed [in Iraq], but we’ve got to multitask… We’ve got to talk about Iran – Iran is more...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Right before Memorial Day Weekend, Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, announced her resignation. Her husband has a rare form of bone cancer, she said, which was the driver of her decision....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) concerned about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza organized a flotilla to bring humanitarian aid to the region. Israel illegally intercepted...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s increasingly hard to remember how and why America is supposed to go to war. First, war is supposed to be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reaction to Israeli actions. Second, war is supposed to be a...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. You can’t make this stuff up. The “liberal” New York Times has now explained why the U.S. has so many overseas military bases in the Middle East and elsewhere. Anton Troianovski, who covers global diplomacy,...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The worst of the Iran War may be over, according to this report from NBC News: Oil plunged and markets surged amid a report the U.S. and Iran are nearing a deal to end the war as gas prices jumped past $4.50....
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Every now and then, I get out one of my globes to remind myself of the geography of America’s many distant wars. Here’s a photo I took a couple of days ago: It’s always staggering to ponder how small Israel is...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. News out of the Pentagon is that the great retreat from Germany is beginning. Five thousand U.S. troops are being withdrawn at the request of a petulant president who can’t stand criticism of his disastrous...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Courtesy of NBC News, here’s a brief summary of the butcher’s bill of the latest wars in the Middle East: Iran’s forensics chief said nearly 3,400 people had been killed in the country since U.S.-Israeli...
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. America has a nasty – and uncoincidental – pattern of bombing and intervening in countries largely populated by nonwhite peoples. These are, essentially, exercises in neocolonial power. Recent targets include...
