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After three years of fighting, the loss of tens of thousands of lives, both US and Iraqi, and an expenditure of $200 billion, neoconservatives have started to question the wisdom of the war in Iraq. The shift in thinking extends across the conservative media landscape from William Buckley to George Will, who note that Iran, North Korea and Iraq are “more dangerous” than in 2002 when US President...

Conventional wisdom suggests that Arab nations and investors would scorn US investments after the US Congress objected to a Dubai firm taking over management of six major US ports. There is fear that the rejection of the deal, reflecting anti-Muslim bias, could trigger a short- or long-term backlash. Yet analysts report that the US – representing 50 percent of the world’s economic market –...

Viewing the Vietnam War as consisting of three phases provides insight into the Iraq War, which is repeating the errors that marked each successive phase. The first phase of the Vietnam War commenced with a miscalculation of US strategic interests. What became the US imperative in Vietnam of “containing China,” preventing the Soviet Bloc from expanding in the region, had no solid basis....