In Joint Vision 2020(.doc), published in June, 2000, the US military sets as its “ultimate goal†the achieving of “full spectrum dominanceâ€: Full spectrum dominance implies that US forces are able to conduct prompt, sustained, and synchronized operations...
Goldstone & Hassan
After the Goldstone Gaza war crimes report was released on September 15, Israel immediately asked for the U.S.'s help in "curbing the international fallout."  Its message was don't let a bad precedent be set, you want to be able to pursue "the war on terror"...
Bergen’s Albright Moment
It was a very hard choice, but Peter Bergen has given our killing by remote control a grudging thumbs up (Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants -- and civilians, CNN, Oct. 29, 2009).  Not only do the drone attacks "consistently" kill civilians, they...
Driving That Af/Pak Train
October 18th's suicide bombing in Iran near the Pakistan border was the subject of the top three articles in October 20th's Asia Times.  "Conventional wisdom suggests that the terrorist strike by Jundallah in southeastern Iran on Sunday might have had the backing...
Chicago and Pakistan
Appropriately, Congress passed the Kerry-Lugar "Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009" and the International Olympic Committee made its much anticipated decision just as the baseball season drew to a close.Yep, the Windy City's National League franchise...
Brutal Mistakes
Ha'aretz's military affairs expert Ze'ev Schiff is pleased as punch that the green light the U.S. has given will last "for a week or two, and possibly more," provided Israel doesn't make a "brutal mistake in the fighting." He has in mind how the Qana massacre...
Cleansed; Cleaned Out
From Amman, Jordan, Iraqis hope their stories of dispossession will reach "honest American people" while in North Freedom, Wisconsin, a father wonders if there are any.
George and Jane no-show?
In June, John Conyers' mock impeachment hearing "took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration 'neocons' so 'the United...
Suffocation chambers
Three years ago, under the psuedonym "Jim Rissman," I wrote a piece for Antiwar that was then used by Freedomfiles.org to anchor its "Atrocities against the Afghan People" section. The Northern Alliance, a U.S. client, took prisoners "in a U.S.-orchestrated military...
Nichols countdown—0
(see 10 for introduction) John Nichols didn't make it, the streak ends at 109 Capital Times columns, it just wouldn't be December 30th without him using the word "Israel" for the first time. Last year it was refusenik pilots, this year it's Richard Ben Cramer. In a...
