[PDF file]: […] given the earlier Soviet experience in Afghanistan, good sense should have been enough to avoid this entanglement. What we have to deal with in both Afghanistan and Iraq is American hubris, something into which Tony Blair’s New Labour government wholly and disastrously bought. One criticism of the book is Farrell’s readiness to sometimes accept […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]
[PDF file]: […] value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero interest in the Blair Doctrine when planning its attack on Iraq. It also turned out that Blair didn’t have much interest in it either. Despite France and Germany urging compliance with ongoing UN initiatives, all other options […]
[PDF file]: […] the same is true of all UN treaties (think of Israel’s decades-long violation of the Geneva Conventions in occupied Palestine, or Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, or the social security cuts across Europe in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ad infinitum). Sadly, […]
[PDF file]: […] Germany 18%, Japan 21% and Russia 22%. A study of major and/or western nations shows that only Montenegro, Pakistan, Eire, Swaziland, Cuba, Turkmenistan, Angola, Malawi, Libya and Iraq invest less in their own economies than the UK. The announcements now being made about a UK economic recovery (the definition of which is rather curious) […]
[…] responsible for three times as many deaths in the United States as were Islamists’ and that: Just as jihadists have used conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Balkans, Iraq, and Syria to swap tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and solidify transnational networks, so too are WSEs148 using Ukraine as a hub or battlefield laboratory, where […]
[PDF file]: […] ensconced at Harvard, I see no reason to conceal the truth. It is necessary to reveal this so that people can correctly evaluate his political pronouncements on Iraq and Afghanistan, and his motives in making them.’ 6 Wikileaks There is an interesting discussion of what if anything the US state can do to stop […]
[PDF file]: […] global NATO – replacing the UN in attempting to resolve international crises. This process started with the Serbian intervention of 1999 and then extended to Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Syria (2012) as well as to Asia and the Pacific in a show of strength against China. The second Cold War Sakwa argues […]
