Perhaps the title of this blog post should be the “future” wars, ones in addition to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the US presence officially winds down in Iraq […]
Keystone Cops Foreign Policy
US Foreign Policy has become synonymous with wishful thinking, and reactive planning that usually redounds on the US with unexpected and unpleasant consequences. This blog post is a follow on to the […]
Syria a.k.a. Iraq
There was an excellent article outlining two possible scenarios for Syria on AP mobile news last week, neither of them good. To quote: “One scenario: a bloodbath as Syria’s majority Sunni population, […]
Israel-Iran Update
I refer to my blog of May 29, Election Game Changers, in which I wrote about the possibility of an Israeli (or US sanctioned) strike on Iran. Since then both Romney and […]
Ongoing Arab Spring II
This blog can best be summarised at the outset with lines by the witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth……. “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble” I last wrote […]
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