Cruise Missiles

Yemen: The Bidding Begins

Michael Brenner | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Yemen, US Drone Missiles, War on Terror, Aqap, Yemen Protests, Cruise Missiles, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al Qaeda, World News
Michael Brenner

We have no candidate of our own in a wide open contest for the next Yemini strongman. So we revert to our rote formula. The great game that we call the 'war on terror' goes on -- and on.

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Obama's Libyan Gamble, Week Two

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.28.2011

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Chris Weigant

If the Libyan war ends well, Obama's Libyan gamble will have paid off handsomely. A little more than one week in, things seem to be going fairly well.

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The Hypocrisy Of War

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jim Wallis, Protests in Bahrain, Dictators, Libya, Democracy in Egypt, Deficit Hawks, Cruise Missiles, The Cost of War, Cost of War, Democracy, Budget Cuts, Moammar Gadhafi, Hypocrisy of War, American Foreign Policy, Conflict in Darfur, Defense Spending, Intervention in Libya, World News
Jim Wallis

The U.S. just started another war. We're good at starting wars. We're not good at ending them, but we start them really well. They say this is for "humanitarian" reasons. But aren't they all?

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Obama's Libyan Gamble

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Rather than selling a war as an existential threat to America, American democracy, freedom, the flag, Mom, and apple pie (as pretty much every president has done for decades), Barack Obama's approach is something new: war as a nuisance.

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After Bombing Libya, What Now?

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, Arab League, Benghazi, Africa Union, Bombing, Barack Obama, Cruise Missiles, Nicolas Sarkozy, Senoussi, Lepen, World News
Eric Margolis

The question President Obama should be asking himself right about now is: given our $1.4 trillion deficit, can we really afford another little war whose rational is unclear and outcome uncertain?

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Iran Begins Cruise Missile Production

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced Sunday that it has started a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add ...

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