If Obama’s foreign policy is sometimes incoherent, Hillary’s is simply Bush-lite. Her recent essay in Foreign Affairs reveals herself as someone who does not depart substantially from the globalist paradigm of Bush and President Clinton, with the main difference being her greater faith in “diplomacy.” In a world where many nations’ interests involve knocking America down in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Hillary’s Foreign Policy
Posted in Election, Hillary Clinton, foreign policy, tagged al qaeda, Anti-Terrorism, China, Counter-Terrorism, Foreign Affiars, foreign policy, George Bush, GWB, Hillary Clinton, Idealism, Iran, Iraq, iraq war, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, North Korea, Nuclear Proliferation, obama, President Clinton, realism, Russia, Terrorism on 21 Oct 2007 | 10 Comments »
General Sanchez, Loser
Posted in Ricardo Sanchez, iraq war, tagged , Bush, counterinsurgency, Generals, Insurgency, Iraq, rumsfeld, Sanchez, tactics on 15 Oct 2007 | 3 Comments »
I think it’s remarakable that General Ricardo Sanchez, former Corps Commander of all coalition assets in Iraq, is now pointing the finger at everyone–including Rumsfeld, Bremer, Casey, Bush, etc.–when he was so singularly incapable of getting the mission accomplished in Iraq. He failed to keep control when the daily numbers of IED and other [...]
IED Report
Posted in Iraq, Military, tagged , Bombs, Car Bombs, counterinsurgency, Fiasco, IED, Iraq, Military, Ricks, tactics, VBIED, War on 2 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Tom Ricks, author of Fiasco, has an excellent series of reports on IEDs in Iraq in the Washington Post. One of the most notable trends is a chart showing the number of IED events since 2003. The number is five or six times higher in 2006 and 2007 than it was in the first six [...]
Thomas Friedman: Partisan for an Illusion
Posted in Free Markets, Politics, Tom Friedman, al qaeda, tagged , 9/10, 9/11, 9/12, al qaeda, army, borders, castro, cuba, Davos, Friedman, gitmo, Globalization, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, marines, Media Bias, Military, New York Times on 1 Oct 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In between his paeans to folks in Bangalore wearing Nike shoes and drinking Starbucks coffee while talking on their Samsung phones, Thomas Friedman also likes to write about foreign policy. He infamously declared every six months for three years running that the situation in Iraq was critical and, by implication, that if things did not [...]
A Thought On the Illogic of Petraeus’ Anti-Surge
Posted in Iraq, surge, tagged 9/11, Bacevich, Bush, Bush Lied, Conservative, counterinsurgency, Drawdown, Iraq, Lies, moveon.org, Petraeus, Politics, ron paul, strategy, surge, Terrorism, Victory, Withdrawl on 29 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
General Petraeus advocated a surge. Then he, inexplicably, said it was working so well that it was time to change course again and reduce the surge. I discussed this illogic here. Andrew Bacevich–Army veteran , BU Professor, and father of deceased Army Lieutenant KIA in Iraq–explains the political roots of Petraeus’ backing down [...]
Rusmfeld: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Posted in Iraq, Military, counterinsurgency, rumsfeld, tagged Abrams, afghanistan, air force, algeria, army, CAP Platoon, cold war, counterinsurgency, democracy, elections, Iraq, manpower, marines, Military, navy, Petraeus, recruitment, retention, rumsfeld, Sanchez, soviet union, strategy, surge, tactics, transformation, Vietnam, Westmoreland on 28 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of the Cold War, the US military was cut dramatically. We went from a 750,000 man Army to one of about 475,000 today. The Navy and Air Force undertook similar cuts. We went from spending about 5.5% of GDP on the military to 3%. One consequence has been that [...]
Al Qaeda, Anbar, and Fourth Generation Warfare
Posted in 4GW War, Iraq, Strategy and Tactics, tagged al qaeda, army, d-n-i, dni, fourth generation, Iraq, marines, ramadi, strategy, tactics, Terrorism, warfare, william lind on 26 Sep 2007 | 1 Comment »
William Lind argues that al Qaeda’s previous strengths–its fanaticism and decentralization–may prove its undoing in Iraq:
It is reasonably clear that, contrary to the White House’s claims, the “surge” had little or nothing to do with the improved situation in Anbar province in Iraq. That security there has improved is a fact; a [...]
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Calhoun, Neoconservatives, and Liberty
Posted in Iraq, Neoconservatives, Politics, tagged , 1848, anarchy, Bush, Calhoun, Cheney, Commentary, Confederacy, despotism, freedom, Iraq, Lawrence Auster, libertarianism, Liberty, napoleon, Nation Building, Neoconservatives, Paleoconservatives, Philosophy, Podhoretz, Slavery, South, Southern on 28 Sep 2007 | 3 Comments »
Lawrence Auster has an interesting post today that notes that one of the prime engines of neoconservative folly is this idea that everyone “deserves” liberty and that we, therefore, having the ability, owe it to strange peoples to “give them freedom.”
His post reminded me of something I read long ago in the Liberty Fund’s collection [...]
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