In Official Washington, the talk is all about expanded wars and how tough to be on Syrian refugees. But elsewhere there is some serious reflection on how the West went wrong in its approach toward the Middle East, as reflected…
Category: Obama Administration
Tangled Threads of US False Narratives
How Russians See the West and Russia
Reform Judaism’s Israeli Critique
Baiting Obama to ‘Shock and Awe’
Neocons Make Rubio Their Favorite
CIA Whistleblower Kiriakou Honored
CIA officer John Kiriakou, the first U.S. official to confirm that waterboarding was used to torture “war on terror” detainees, then faced a retaliatory prosecution and 30 months in prison. Recognizing his sacrifice, the literary group PEN gave Kiriakou its First Amendment Award, observed ex-CIA analyst…
Lost on the ‘Dark Side’ in Syria
Falling into the ISIS Trap
The Need for a Syrian Deal
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks and other mass killings in Beirut and aboard a Russian airliner there are new demands for military action. But the one step that might help matters is a more pragmatic approach to resolving the…