As India’s government reacts to the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, tensions with Pakistan seem certain to increase — just what the attackers hoped for.
A.J. Rossmiller
A.J. Rossmiller is a fellow at the National Security Network and a former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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DISCUSSING TROOP MISSION, NOT JUST NUMBER.
Although it almost certainly comes too late to have an impact on the Iowa caucuses,, the Although it almost certainly comes too late to have an impact on the Iowa caucuses,, the recent specificity from John Edwards on the role of Americans as “trainers” in Iraq is actually very significant. While Iraq has been less […]
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IT’S NOT PARANOIA IF…
Time magazine’s selection of Vladimir Putin as its Person of the Year is an interesting choice not just because it overlooked perhaps more obvious options, from good (Al Gore) to malevolent (Moqtada al-Sadr), but because of how Putin is presented in the lengthy feature. Specifically, Putin seems to recognize clearly the tendency of both the […]
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ROTATING RATIONALES.
Not even two months ago, the Washington Post reported that the U.S. military believed so-called al Qaeda in Iraq was “crippled” and “all but eliminated.” The focus of military force — and the new greatest threat to Iraq, apparently — was shifting to Shia militias, which officials identified as a greater “relative” threat with the […]
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What’s Behind the Iraq-China Weapons Deal
Baghdad’s decision to buy arms from China has less to do with the Iraqi government’s quest for weapons and more to do with its concerns about the direction of U.S. policy.
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Wanted: A Liberal Dick Cheney
Why a progressive vice president should follow the Cheney model.
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Fickle Attraction
It is now, finally, widely understood that any long-term improvement in Iraq will have to come about through political compromises and solutions. Only the most fringe reactionaries still argue that we can prevail in Iraq by killing or capturing all of our “enemies.” Political settlements, whether in the form of a grand bargain or compartmentalized […]
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Lessons Learned?
The recent commotion over Hillary Clinton’s failure to apologize for her 2002 Iraq war authorization vote, and the subsequent comparisons to other Democratic candidates’ statements on the issue, obscures a more important question: What effect, if any, has the Iraq war had upon these candidates’ respective foreign policy worldviews? Clinton has emphatically refused to apologize […]