Category Archives: Iraq

Chain Of Command

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Luke Ford

I’ve watched the first five episodes of this National Geographic documentary series and it is amazing that the United States is so heavily invested in fighting something as subjective and amorphous as “violent extremism.” This is an arbitrary moral category. … Continue reading →

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Haaretz: ‘White Man’s Burden’

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Luke Ford

None of these people who pushed for the 2003 Iraq invasion seem to have paid any price for their idiocy. A smaller percentage of American Jews thought the war was a good idea compared to the general population, but a … Continue reading →

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White Man’s Burden

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comment: “Haaretz ran this interesting story back in 2003 about the genesis of the Iraq War. Suffice it to say no respectable journalist in the US could have run this without ruining their career.” Haaretz: The war in Iraq was … Continue reading →

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Ben Shapiro 2005: Why war in Iraq is right for America

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Luke Ford

Ben Shapiro writes Aug. 10, 2005: Americans are impatient isolationists at heart. We don’t want to be the world’s policemen. Gaining Iraqis their freedom, as good as it sounds, isn’t enough of a justification for war. China is a dictatorship. … Continue reading →

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Francis Fukuyama and Charles Krauthammer

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

From Steve Sailer in 2005: Fukuyama Responds to Krauthammer: The Israelization of American Foreign Policy. You may recall that prominent neocon Francis “End of History” Fukuyama jumped ship awhile ago and criticized Charles Krauthammer in The National Interest for his … Continue reading →

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