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Now It’s Time For Hillary Clinton to Answer Some Questions About the Iraq War
View image | gettyimages.com Jeb Bush has now been bludgeoned into submission on Iraq, a development that is remarkable when you step back and look at how quickly the Republican consensus on that topic has changed. Two weeks ago you wouldn’t have predicted that most of the Republicans would now say the war should never […]
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The Myth of ‘Faulty Intelligence’
View image | gettyimages.com The Iraq War, both how it began and how it proceeded, is now an active topic in the 2016 presidential campaign, which I think is a highly salutary development. But it does mean that we need to be on guard for the kind of distortions, misleading statements, and outright lies that […]
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Should We Relitigate the Iraq War in the 2016 Campaign? You Bet We Should
The question isn’t so much whether candidates will admit what a disaster Iraq was, but what they’ve learned from the experience.
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Should We Relitigate the Iraq War in the 2016 Campaign? You Bet We Should
View image | gettyimages.com If all goes well, in the 2016 campaign we’ll be rehashing the arguments we had about the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. You may be thinking, “Jeez, do we really have to go through that again?” But we do-in fact, we must. If we’re going to make sense of where […]
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Netanyahu’s New Government: Weak, Extreme, and Unpredictable
To stay in power, Israel’s prime minister created a government even further right than he is.
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The West’s Regard for Charlie Hedbo Victims Not Extended to African Targets of Extremist Violence
Massacres in Nigeria and Garissa, Kenya, did not draw nearly as much worldwide attention or grief as Charlie Hebdo. What does that say about how we value African lives?
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Pity the Purist in the GOP Primaries (A Tear for Bobby Jindal)
To win the presidential election will require selective dissents and little blasphemies.
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The Trouble With Drone Strikes
Today, President Obama revealed that a drone strike in Pakistan killed two aid workers who were being held by al Qaeda, one an American named Warren Weinstein, and the other an Italian named Giovanni Lo Porto. This is obviously generating news because there was an American killed, while the accidental deaths of innocent civilians don’t […]
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The Sensible, Risky Option
The Iran deal is a gamble, but the best one available.Â
