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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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 