War Hawks

Let's Drop the Big One

Bob Burnett | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Republican Presidential Candidates, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Atomic Bomb, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Iran War, Iran, War Hawks, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Republican presidential candidates' extreme comments about economics and culture have dominated headlines, but lurking in the shadows is a hawkish Cold War mentality. Gingrich, Romney and Santorum want to beef up the military and put nuclear weapons back on the table.

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Peggy Noonan's Shameless Attempt To Rewrite (Her Own) History

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Media Matters for America, Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan, Iraq War, Conservatives, Liberals, President Bush, Iraq, War Hawks, Afghanistan War, Media News
Eric Boehlert

War hawks like Peggy Noonan have to find some way to wipe the slate clean. They have to at least try to rewrite history because if they let the true facts go unchallenged, that means liberal doves were right about U.S. foreign policy.

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A Falcon of Peace

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Political Pundits, Barack Obama Iraq War, Afghanistan, Pundits, Pakistan, Iraq, War Hawks, Obama Iraq, Afghanistan War, World News
Tom Engelhardt

Despite everything, hawks rule; doves never even get the chance to take off. If you're not addicted to force (and so failure), you're simply not a part of the grand scheme of things, of the world as it is.

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An Awkward Question For Iraq War Hawks

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq, War Hawks, Refugees, War Refugees, Saddam Hussein, Susan Cornwell, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Victory in Iraq, Reuters, Iraq War Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

If conditions in Iraq are now in good shape and the bad guys are on the run, why is the US allowing thousands of Iraqis to leave their country and re-settle here?

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