Tag Archives: Iran

As we wind down combat operations in Iraq, violence escalates there ─ Lessons for Afghanistan 0

Once a dictatorship is overthrown, heterogeneous people(s) cannot survive as a nation in the face of internal and external opponents to their success For years, the United States has denied the mistake it made in preemptively attacking Iraq. Today, shortly after most American combat troops left Iraq, the long-term price for that mistake is surfacing. [...]

Palestinians and Israel guarantee each other mutual death on what they call God and Allah’s ground ─ Both sides stoke the soul’s darkness 0

The Middle East ─ a Shakespearean morality play about the tragedy caused by sinning against compassion Human beings are a darkly vicious species, who seem to have invented organized religion mostly as an excuse to exterminate each other.  Nowhere is the process of self-justification for murdering each other’s children more obviously apparent than in the [...]