Archive for the ‘Iraq’ Category
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Podcast: War and Peace?
Posted on January 9, 2020
War and Peace? Was killing Qassem Soleimani a good idea or a bad idea for Donald Trump and for the American people? ...
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Hillary is Vulnerable on Iraq
Posted on May 18, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Iraq will play a central role in the 2016 election. President Obama had hoped that, by pulling out our troops just in time for...
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Jeb Has To Prove That He is His Own Man
Posted on May 15, 2015
It was a slam dunk. Jeb Bush could have quoted his brother. Or his most likely opponent in a general election, should he win the primary. Instead, he fumbled the...
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Let’s Wander Into a Bar Brawl in the Middle East
Posted on September 15, 2014
Some hawks think it is smart policy and politics to push President Obama into putting boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq to battle the ISIS threat. It’s neither....
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Who Are These Guys?
Posted on September 1, 2014
Who are these guys? That’s the famous line from the classic movie, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. It could also be asked of the Sunni insurgency that has overtaken...
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