Exclusive: Despite the disastrous Iraq War, neocons still dominate Official Washington’s inside-outside game, government policymakers coordinating with think-tank opinion leaders to keep world tensions high and money flowing to military projects, a process personified by Robert Kagan and Victoria Nuland, says Robert Parry.
Category: Lost History
MH-17 Mystery: A New Tonkin Gulf Case?
Entering the Age of Nuclear Terror
US/Israeli/Saudi ‘Behavior’ Problems
Iran’s Long-Game Diplomatic Strategy
The Path Ahead for Palestine
The Mess that Nuland Made
Touchy Issue: Talking with ‘Terrorists’
Official Washington often exacerbates foreign conflicts by shoving them into misshapen narratives or treating them as good-guy-vs.-bad-guy morality plays, rather than political disputes that require mediation. The problem is particularly tricky with “terrorist” groups, writes ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller.