Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution. I had a letter in the mail the other week from someone named Barry Klein, who resides in Houston. I filed it knowing I would write about it,.
Proposing that foreign policy be subjected to democratic processes is a call, essentially, to revolution.
By Patrick Lawrence
Special to Consortium News
I had a letter in the mail the other week from someone named Barry Klein, who resides in Houston. I filed it knowing I would write about
How did the failure in Afghanistan come about and who is to blame? Multiple administrations and both parties own the blame for the state of the nation, says Col. Andrew Bacevich (ret.) of the Quincy Institute. We now have a responsibility to provide continued military and diplomatic support for the nation after our 20 year engagement, says Lisa Curtis of the Center for a New American Security.
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If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?
Recently, in a podcast chat about our very different but somehow twin journeys through those wars, he and I got to thinking about what might have happened if our paths had crossed so much earlier. Both of us, after all, have been writing for
TomDispatch for years. As Bill once said to me, thinking about his post-military writing career, You know, Danny, in my small way I was trying and failing to stop the wars you were heading into.
Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood
By William J. Astore and Danny Sjursen
If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country’s catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end?
Recently, in a podcast chat about our very different but somehow twin journeys through those wars, he and I got to thinking about what might have happened if our paths had crossed so much earlier. Both of us, after all, have been writing for
TomDispatch for years. As Bill once said to me, thinking about his post-military writing career, “You know, Danny, in my small way I was trying and failing to stop the wars you were heading into.”