Contradictions beset the U.S. war over Iraq and Syria. The principal target ISIS wouldn’t even exist but for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, and al-Qaeda affiliates in Syria have benefited from defections of U.S.-backed “moderates.” But now warplanes and missiles are…
Tag: Barack Obama
Obama’s Novel Lawyering to Bomb Syria
Obama’s Risks of Escalation
High Cost of Bad Journalism on Ukraine
Blocking a ‘Realist’ Strategy on the Mideast
How Obama’s New War Could Backfire
Braveheart, Edward I, and Bush
From the Archive: As Scots vote on independence from Great Britain, part of the motivation for those voting “aye” is the brutal history of English repression of Scottish freedom, dating back centuries but fresh in the minds of many Scots,…