by Henry Oliner | Nov 11, 2016 | Foreign policy, History, Israel
Ike’s Gamble by Michael Doran is an account of the 1956 Suez Crisis with a perspective different from many previous ones which were directed from narratives from CIA players at the time. The United States under Eisenhower supported the rise of independent nations and...
by Henry Oliner | May 24, 2015 | Foreign policy
by Henry Oliner | Jan 25, 2015 | Foreign policy
From National Review, The Biggest Lie, by Victor Davis Hanson There were all sorts of untold amnesias about Iraq. No one remembers the 23 writs that were part of the 2002 authorizations that apparently Obama believes are still in effect. They included genocide,...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 6, 2014 | Foreign policy
from Iraq War Regrets in The National Review, a compendium of analysis. Victor Davis Hanson Despite the postwar errors of occupation (among them most prominently the dismissal of the Iraqi army and the failure to use sufficient force to ensure order) that had led to a...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 29, 2014 | Foreign policy
from Iraq War Regrets in The National Review, a compendium of analysis. Michael Pakaluk The term for the main virtue of practical intelligence, prudence, comes from a contraction of the word for foresight, “providentia.” So it should cause no surprise that in...
