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Category Archives: Iraq
Haaretz: ‘White Man’s Burden’
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
White Man’s Burden
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
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
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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The New York Times Pushed For The Invasion Of Iraq In 2003
FAIR in 2006: In a New York Times article (9/5/06) on George W. Bush’s September 5 speech concerning terrorism and Iraq, reporters David Sanger and John O’Neil included a striking revision of Bush’s reasoning for going to war: The possibility … Continue reading
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New Yorker Editor David Remnick Pushed For The Iraq Invasion In 2003
Remnick wrote in February of 2003: The United States has been wrong, politically and morally, about Iraq more than once in the past; Washington has supported Saddam against Iran and overlooked some of his bloodiest adventures. The price of being … Continue reading
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So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits–and the President–Failed on Iraq
Greg Mitchell writes: For awhile, back in 2003, Iraq meant never having to say you’re sorry. The spring offensive had produced a victory in less than three weeks, with a relatively low American and Iraqi civilian death toll. Saddam fled … Continue reading
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Jews & The 2003 Iraq War
American Jews had a more skeptical view than regular Americans about the wisdom of invading Iraq in 2003, and yet the major Jewish organizations were pushing the war, just another example of how Jewish elites are out of touch with … Continue reading
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John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
I was impressed by this presentation by the two political scientists. At the end, John J. Mearsheimer says: “The United States would care about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons even if there was no state of Israel. There are two reasons … Continue reading
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Divide & Conquer
For centuries England’s long-time foreign policy was to encourage division and conflict in Europe, thus leaving England safer. Israel’s foreign policy is to encourage division and conflict in the Middle East, thus leaving Israel stronger. Do you think Israel’s leaders … Continue reading