Obama
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Add Trump’s Yemen Veto to Obama’s Spotty War Legacy
In The New Republic, I point out how Obama’s Libya war paved the way for Trump to veto the resolution demanding an end to US support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war in Yemen. Trump loves to present himself as the anti-Obama, but he has no one to thank more than Obama for his ability to…
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Steve Coll on the killing of Osama bin Laden
New reporting by Steve Coll offers few new details on the bin Laden raid and only partially corroborates Sy Hersh’s account.
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Report Shows More Evidence That United States Contributed to Rise of ISIS
A new report finds that a significant portion of ammunition used by Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) militants was made in the United States. The study is more evidence that the U.S. government facilitated the rise of ISIS. According to London-based Conflict Armament Research, China, Russia, and the United States are the top three manufactureres of the sample…
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The Solution to ISIS Is Not Military Action
Originally published at the Fordham Observer. “Iraq’s future will be in the hands of its people. America’s war in Iraq will be over,” President Obama announced to troops at the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina on December 14, 2011, one day before the official end to the eight-year-long Operation Iraqi Freedom. I wish…
Gunar Olsen 