The War Abroad U.S. Hostage Rescue Is A 'Contingency' for U.S. Special Ops in Israel It isn't the mission for elite U.S. forces, according to a senior Pentagon official. But it's an option—and one that the Biden team has to be very careful about.
The War Abroad Video: How Israel Is Repeating The U.S.' Post-9/11 Mistakes I spoke with DW, the German news outlet, about the "grim chain of consequences" known as the War on Terror, and how Israel's devastation of Gaza follows the template. PLUS: Amalek in Gaza
The War Abroad U.S. Bombs Iran in Syria And Tries To Call Time-Out As it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps positions in Syria, the Pentagon insisted that it's neither part of Israel's war and it doesn't want to fire again. Good luck with that
The War Abroad Talking Israel/Palestine on The Ezra Klein Show PLUS: the Pentagon sees "a prospect for much more significant escalation," while the King of Jordan has a message about U.S. leadership in light of Gaza.
Newsletter Biden's "Indispensable Nation" Is on The Brink of A Wider War A regional war that could involve America is frighteningly close. Biden's speech talked past it
The War Abroad Veto Joe Whatever the Biden administration sought this week for humanitarian aid to Gaza, they blocked a U.N. resolution demanding the violence pause in order to provide it.
The War Abroad Confront 9/11 Politics And They Can Be Defeated If this is Israel's 9/11, be Susan Sontag. Apartheid is what has gotten over 1200 Israelis killed and may soon "pretty much ethnically cleanse the northern part of the Gaza Strip"
The War Abroad Sami al-Arian & Daniel Levy on The Return To Open War in Israel/Palestine Two wise people, a Palestinian and an Israeli, on a harrowing past few days and avoiding the horrors to come. FOREVER WARS editorializes: if you want peace, free Palestine.
Paid-members only The War Abroad The Media's Role in 20 Years of Islamophobia Notes on a weekend in Doha and my prepared remarks to a panel discussion on Islamophobia that Georgetown University convened. PLUS: Your War on Terror news roundup
Newsletter China Says NSA Surveillance Is Intensifying As Uncle Ben once said, with great power competition comes great espionage expansions. PLUS: Egypt buys a senator; and more!
The War Abroad Anatomy of a U.S. Foreign Policy Win Ukraine gets weapons. Imran Khan gets dismissed and prosecuted. The only ones who lose are Pakistanis, and since when does the U.S. give a shit about them?
The War Abroad The Virgin Rome And The Chad Constantinople Do you think about the Roman Empire a lot? Obviously. But which Roman Empire? And which successor to the Roman Empire? PLUS: Some appearances I'm doing.
Paid-members only The War Abroad Writing Villains: A Place To Put Bad Feelings Waller Vs. Wildstorm #3, the big action issue, is in stores now! No spoilers, just notes on the catharsis of scripting people who do evil things, like "peace operations officer" Slade Wilson.
The War Abroad Military Judge Rejects CIA's 'Rectal Feeding' Narrative for Post-9/11 Sexual Assault No previous judge has challenged the agency's line about what it did to 9/11-era detainees. PLUS: The absence of the U.S. military for the relief of Maui.
The War Abroad CIA Story Time: From Patrice Lumumba's Assassination To Post-9/11 Torture Before his death in 2008, CIA operator Larry Devlin lamented the persecution of agency interrogators. A forthcoming book sheds light on his role overthrowing Congo's first post-colonial government.
The War Abroad The Bipartisan Parts of the Defense Bill Suck, Too House Republicans used $886 billion (!) NDAA as a pitchfork for a culture-war witchhunt. That just scratches the surface of what's wrong with this thing.
The War Abroad Babylon Makes The Rules-Based International Order You know what clarifies the difference between the U.S.' order and international law? Syria. Guidance…
The War Abroad The Foreign Policy Elite Can't Understand How They Got Us Here Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations thinks the biggest danger to the world is the United States. But he doesn't mean it in the way that's, y'know, true.
The War Abroad U.N.: U.S. Must 'Make Full Reparation For The Injuries Caused' by Gitmo "Without accountability, there is no moving forward on Guantánamo," said a U.N. special rapporteur, shouting a truth into the void of U.S. foreign policy.
The War Abroad From Dan Ellsberg and Vietnam to Bob Gates and NATO Expansion The ex-defense secretary wrote in his 2014 memoir that expanding NATO inevitably provoked Russia—and kept silent to George W. Bush instead of doing something about it.
The War Abroad The Three Laws of Robotics Will Be Violated Like All Other Laws The Air Force might not have run an AI test that prompted a machine to kill its overseer with a drone. The Air Force colonel who brought it up did so as a warning.
The War Abroad U.N.: Free Abu Zubaydah—and Pay Him An extraordinary report from the United Nations says the detention of the first forever-prisoner the U.S. tortured after 9/11 and then threw into Gitmo amounts to an "enforced disappearance."
Paid-members only The War Abroad How To Read an Intelligence Leak One of the recent ChudLeaks claims Afghanistan is fertile soil for the so-called Islamic State. Let's step back for some perspective. PLUS: The Pegasus cyberweapon is back.
The War Abroad 'This Was Nineveh, After All…' Have you read Salar Abdoh's Out Of Mesopotamia? Because I can't stop thinking about it. PLUS: Tortuguita's autopsy; Guantanamo and the Yemen war; and are we sure we're not incentivizing China to invade Taiwan?
The War Abroad Eating King Crab Legs During The Fall That's what Iraqis call the 2003-2011 U.S. Occupation. Here's my call for reparations at Notre Dame's 2023 War & Peace Forum. PLUS: Does MAGA want to join the ranks of those who attack lower Manhattan on a Tuesday morning?
