Why calls for more military intervention in Afghanistan spectacularly miss the point
Every justification for war used by Bush and Blair and their successors has been exposed as at best naive optimism and at worst outright deception.
Every justification for war used by Bush and Blair and their successors has been exposed as at best naive optimism and at worst outright deception.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi replaces one of the men often blamed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Only new ideas can turn the tide
Chilcot needs to ask why a small island with a stretched military budget contemplated a Middle East invasion in the first place
Trump may win the nomination, but his general election prospects are poor
The Sanders campaign has been stalled, but Clinton should be wary of calling him a ‘single issue candidate’
Is Barack Obama as bad as, or even worse than George W. Bush?
This question has been asked by many liberals since the Prism revelations. One way to answer this question is to look at a range of policies (torture, detention without trial, regime change, extra-judicial killings), figure out which is the ‘Left’ position and the ‘Right’ position, and then plot where Bush and Obama belong on the spectrum.
The aftermath of September 11th was not a time for reflection or debate; little room was afforded for complexities, writes Ben Mitchell.