West shall not try identify friend or foe in the messy Middle East (excepts for Iraël): To day's friend is a foe day after. These tribes, armed organizations, political or religious parties, sta...
West shall not try to identify friends and foes in Middle East: To day's friend is a foe the day after. They ha
Rumsfeld at least had the mitigating circumstance of not having any recent example of the need for a clear and level-headed post-combat plan for security and political stability in the region. Ob...
Good call. It is appalling, especially since we know from insider accounts that Gates, Petreaus, and the JCS, among others, were opposed to intervention in Libya. In favor were mainly the WH heav...
To have a post-combat nation-building plan would've been to acknowledge that a) we'd been at war with the Qadaffi regime, b) thus we were responsible for post-war arrangements, and c) al-Qaeda wa...
The results of the Maiden coup were equally foreseeable. It appears that our (and Europe's) so-called "leaders" remain asleep at the switch. One might question whether Ukraine is worth saving fro...
I have to wonder if there will be much discussion of Libya at the upcoming NATO meetings. Perhaps Ukraine provides a suitable excuse to pretend Libya doesn't exist.