Tag: war in the Middle East

Getting it right is always the wrong approach when it comes to America’s wars.

We must learn to be skeptical of both our political leaders and our mass media, when they give us reasons for going to war.

The U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan should force a reckoning with a long history of military intervention.

Ironically, the collapse of the Afghanistan government is a powerful argument that the state-builders and counter-insurgency advocates failed miserably, but Biden took the blame for it.

As we approach the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we should reflect on how the Bush administration exploited the U.S. public’s thirst for revenge to unleash this bloody, tragic and utterly futile 20-year war.