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  • Straight Talk About Israel

    Mr Rosner does really invoke TRUTH regarding Israeli US relations. Instead, he calls for downplaying them. Why? Might it be that Rosner does not want the truth about Israeli US relations to be revealed? After 1948, Israel was an modern independent nation with its own foreign policy agenda which included expansion and inclusion of the ancient ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on October 10, 2008

  • News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional

    I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008

  • Re: No one has suggested we're at war with Iran? Yes they have.

    Interesting points. But the US embassy was used to support the Shah Pavhavi monarchy, including training his SAVAK in torture and police state action, not to mention all kinds of espionage. Given these violations of general diplomatic licenses and a change in Iranian government meant the Iranian govt had a legal right to sieze the embassy. Of ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on April 23, 2008

  • Re: Power, Faith, and Fantasy...

    Oren's book is fairly accurate regarding American foreign policy. But even it does not go far enough into elucidating the grander themes of American foreign policy's ''world vision''. Rubma, while you are reading the era between WWI and WWII, please note whom are the world powers at that time, whom are controlling and dominating the Middle East ...
    Posted to War Stories by Usama2 on February 4, 2008

  • Krebs Can't Shake Imperial Thinking

    It seems like so many pundits, thinkers, politicans, and leaders in America just can't shake the mindset that America must advance its interests abroad through conniving double talk, backstabbing hypocricy, and cutthroat manicheanism. Its like the abuser that beats his kids, realizes its wrong, but resorts back to beating them because it just ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama2 on January 4, 2008