Sec. Gates Lectures NATO: Render Unto Caesar…

By: Scarecrow Saturday June 11, 2011 1:00 pm

I’ll leave it to foreign policy wonks to explain the strategic rationale for having your outgoing Secretary of Defense deliver a very public rebuke to our NATO allies on the duties they owe to maintaining US hegemony. I’m sure it’s more complicated than a mere scarecrow could possibly imagine.

I’ll just limit myself to note how preposterous it is, never mind arrogant and cluelessly not-self-aware, for an American official to pretend that it’s Europe, and not US taxpayers and their elected Congress, who have steadfastly refused to pay the cost of US foreign adventures.

In Which Donald Rumsfeld Helpfully Demonstrates the Post Hoc Fallacy

By: Blue Texan Tuesday March 22, 2011 6:00 pm

And today’s wingnut “Libya is so awesome today because George W. Bush killed 250,000 Iraqis” take comes from a two-time Secretary of Defense and all-around great guy.

Raymond Davis: Intelligence Recruiter in Pakistan, Too?

By: Jim White Wednesday February 23, 2011 12:35 pm

Last Thursday, I presented evidence that builds a strong case that one of Raymond Davis’ functions when he is in the US is to recruit intelligence agents. On Tuesday, the Express Tribune in Pakistan presented evidence that suggests that Davis also worked as a recruiter of some sort within Pakistan, as well.

Mark Warner’s Chocolate Fountain Remorse

By: emptywheel Tuesday November 9, 2010 12:30 pm

What journalist Matt Bai and Virginia’s junior Senator Mark Warner choose not to understand is that centrism is an ideology even more stubborn than the left or right they love to attack, but an ideology that got us into the mess we’re in now, both fiscally and electorally.

Dark Actors Playing Games with Iraq WMD Propaganda

By: emptywheel Wednesday October 20, 2010 1:25 pm

We knew the Brits and the US built their propaganda for war together. We knew that Judy Miller was an integral part to that. But when we see the emails going back and forth commenting on each others drafts, it raises once again the question of where the emails back and forth to the war effort’s chief propagandist got disappeared to.

Scooter Libby: “Back in 2003 There Was More That Might Have Been Done”

By: emptywheel Wednesday September 8, 2010 6:05 am

Now, Scooter seems uninterested in relitigating his conviction for lying to protect his boss, Dick Cheney. Interestingly, though, a key point of his appearance — given its focus on Iran’s purported nukes — was to suggest that back in 2003 more could have been done to prevent Iran from getting nukes. You know. 2003. The year he outed a CIA spy trying to prevent Iran from getting nukes?

DNI Nominee Clapper Believed Iraqi WMD Shipped to Syria

By: David Dayen Sunday June 6, 2010 4:45 pm

I, for one, welcome our crazy overlords of the national security state.

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