Month: June 2015

At least 331 were killed and 35 were wounded across Iraq. Dozens were executed in Mosul, while civilians were killed in an airstrike in Hawija.

Living in a country where people learn world geography through frequently fought overseas wars, Americans are accustomed to reading about places where we’ve fought wars – Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. But one formerly war-ravaged part of the world most Americans don’t think much about is Okinawa. Once the independent kingdom of Ryukyu, Okinawa was … Continue reading “Okinawans Want Their Land Back, Is That So Hard To Understand?”

A lot of the criticism of Rand Paul’s anti-interventionist foreign policy pronouncements, as well as his high profile opposition to the NSA’s spying on Americans, is couched in terms of “that was then, this is now.” The argument goes something like this: with ISIS on the rise in the Middle East, and in light of … Continue reading “The Myth of the Interventionist Revival”

Coalition partners met in Paris on Tuesday to discuss Iraq’s plan to fight the Islamic State militants, while at least 456 were killed and 56 were wounded back in Iraq.

In Washington, a town in which most people, both government and non-government employees, are involved, one way or another, in public relations spin, the thing that will get you in the most trouble is telling the simple truth. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter recently stepped in it by stating what should have been obvious to … Continue reading “Hard Truths About Iraq”

At least 165 were killed and 69 were wounded, inclduing 80 Yazidis found in a mass grave.