Reports have persisted since the first days of the war in Iraq that the U.S. has used napalm against resistance forces. It appeared that the reports were confirmed when the commander of Marine Air Group 11, Col. Randolph Alles, in an interview in 2003, described the use of incendiary bombs…
Vice President Dick Cheney said this week that it was “dishonest and reprehensible” to suggest “that the president of the United States or any member of his administration purposely misled the American people on prewar intelligence.” To suggest that “Americans were sent into battle for a deliberate falsehood” is “revisionism…
There is a persistent myth that there was an “intelligence failure” leading up to the Iraq war. That is to say, the intelligence community was responsible for providing policy makers in the White House with flawed intelligence, which they then based their decision upon. There are two notable problems with…
Iraq under Saddam Hussein was not, by any means, the first case in which “regime change” was the policy of the U.S. government. Take, for just one example, Cuba under Fidel Castro. When President Eisenhower briefed his successor John F. Kennedy, plans for an invasion of Cuba were sitting on…
On February 15, 1898, a mysterious explosion sank the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba killing 260 of the men aboard. The event was grasped upon by influential figures as a pretext to intervene in Cuba, where Spain was fighting to prevent the Cubans from gaining their independence. The media…
It was the “manifest destiny” of the U.S., John O’Sullivan famously wrote, “to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”[1] In furtherance of this “manifest destiny”, President James Polk sent General Taylor to the Rio Grande, within what Mexico regarded as its…
“Conspiracy theory”. It’s a phrase we’ve all heard before. And it has certain unavoidable connotations that result from its common usage. The implication is often that anything dubbed a “conspiracy theory” is an outrageous absurdity. It is something ridiculed by intelligent and rational persons, only embraced by lunatics, or radicals…
The drums of war have again been beating at an ever-increasing tempo. In the crosshairs are Iran and Syria. Syria has been taking the heat since the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The U.S. was quick to point the finger at Syria, and a recent UN report on…
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