President Strangelove: How Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs

Have we not yet learned anything of the limits of American hegemony?  Even a cursory review of our post-Vietnam engagements in the Middle East shows a foreign policy almost entirely rooted in ineffectual militarism.  Starting in the 1980s, we armed the Mujahedeen rebels in Afghanistan (and thereby created Al Qaeda), had multiple encounters with Libya, […]