Lessons of the Sanctions Against Iraq
If there is a single takeaway from the thirteen years of “crippling sanctions” against Iraq, it’s that the program didn’t work. Neocons and their allies — who pushed for a full invasion in the first...
View ArticleKerry’s Latest Mideast Trip Doomed Before It Starts
via Lobe Log by Mitchell Plitnick It may seem like US Secretary of State John Kerry is chasing his own tail with regard to the Israel-Palestine issue. But he is, intentionally or otherwise, raising...
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US on Israeli Settlements: A Policy Without A Policy
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick Some days, it must be really difficult to be the State Department’s spokesperson. It doesn’t seem like a bad job to have at all, but on certain questions it’s...
View ArticleDon’t Just Sit There, Bomb Something
via LobeLog by Chas Freeman An acquaintance who, like me, used to work on foreign affairs in the U.S. government, told me the other day that he thought that, in going after Bashar al-Assad, President...
View ArticleOslo At 20: A Failed Process
via LobeLog by Mitchell Plitnick After twenty years of futility, more and more people are coming around to the idea that the Oslo process has failed and that the basis of Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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