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Thursday 5th January 2012
Persian Gulf Folly Redux (1987)
11:07 am | Iran | Iraq | wool | Comments: 3
Following is a piece I wrote in 1987 on the Reagan administration’s idiotic intervention in the Persian Gulf. Versions of this piece appeared in USA Today and the Detroit News.
JUST ANOTHER AMERICAN SITTING DUCK
by James Bovard
Sentimentality now appears to be the soul of Reagan’s foreign policy. From [...]
The Folly of Attacking Iran
10:14 am | Iran | Lying | wool | Comments: 4
Listening to the half-witted ratcheting up of hostilities by both the U.S. and Iranian governments reminded me of this piece I wrote for the Future of Freedom Foundation in the wake of George W. Bush’s Iraq victory speech. It is difficult to detect a learning curve in Washington in the subsequent 7+ years. Instead, [...]
Monday 24th January 2011
Our Know Nothing Foreign Policy (full text)
1:41 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Central Intelligence Agency | Congress | Democracy | Freedom | Iran | Iraq | Lying | Obama | Terrorism | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
The American Conservative placed online today the full text of my review of Magic and Mayhem.
Worst and Brightest
Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages
By James Bovard
In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading con [...]
Sunday 9th August 2009
Iran’s Worst Barbarism: Honesty About Torture
8:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Iran | Torture | Comments: 2
The current government is Iran is a bunch of damn rascals and thugs, and there are boatloads of questions about the honesty of their last election.
The regime’s brutal crackdown on protestors reveals its true character. (But the Iranian government is not novel in this sense: the Syrians have been as brutal with their dissidents, [...]