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'Learning From History': A Goal? A Delusion? A Trap?
Last week, as part of The Atlantic’s discussion of the 15th anniversary of the disastrous invasion of Iraq, I wrote…
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Was Donald Trump Really Against the Iraq War?
Trump’s prescient opposition to the invasion is an important part of his claim to sound judgment. And he is making it up. I would know.
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For the ‘Moral Injuries’ Reading List: God Is Not Here, Consequence, Generation Kill, and Others
Late last night I explained why I thought that Nancy Sherman’s Afterwar was an important non-fiction entry in the still-not-large-enough…
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A More-Interesting-Than-Usual Panel on the Iran Deal
It’s Saturday night of Labor Day weekend. If you’re anything like me, rather than having some barbecue and a beer…
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Reuters More on the Right Questions to Ask About Iraq
Have presidential candidates learned the right lessons from the experiences of Obama and Bush? A person in the middle of the Iraq-and-Afghanistan debates tells us how to find out.
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Reuters The Right and Wrong Questions About the Iraq War
These “knowing what we know now …” questions are driving me crazy. They should make you mad too.
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The Iran Project 'Of No Party or Clique' at The Atlantic
The big-tent principle applied to a former U.S. senator and a current U.S. adversary
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Youssef Boudlal/Reuters Before Tonight's Speech About ISIS
When people say "we must act now!" they are usually wrong. When people say "we can't look weak!" it's usually time to discount whatever else they say.
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Reuters Two Ways of Looking at the Hillary Clinton Interview
Whichever way you see it, the presumptive Democratic nominee has shown us something significant.
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Wikimedia Commons Stratfor on American Grand Strategy in Iraq and Ukraine
"Limiting wars to those that are in the national interest and can be won eliminates many wars." You wouldn't think politicians and thinkers would need to be reminded of this point, but they do.
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Reuters The Graciousness and Dignity of Richard B. Cheney
"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many."
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Wikimedia What's Worth Reading About Iraq
Let's hear from some people who have earned the right to be listened to.
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Hertog Foundation 'The Past Is Never Dead,' Bill Faulkner Told Us—but He Didn't Know About the Iraq War
Some people have earned the right not to be listened to.
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Paying the Costs of Iraq, for Decades to Come
The wars are ending; the obligations, just beginning now.
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WaPo: The Good, the Bad, Then a Different Good Again
Taking responsibility, and avoiding it
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Invading Iraq: What We Were Told at the Time
The cost of war is not reckoned solely in dollars and cents, but let's look at those financial costs.
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Why We Won't Learn From Iraq
An enormous mistake, which probably will not prove "instructive"
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Ten Years Later, What Paul Wolfowitz 'Owes to the Country'
To put it another way: What would Albert Wohlstetter do?
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How We Thought, and Think, About Iraq
What did we learn, and when did we learn it?
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On the 'Idealistic' Case for War
"The status quo ante really sucked."
