17 February 2024

William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East

 Yankee Go Home? Apparently Not in My Lifetime

". . .Meanwhile, American military aid, mostly in the form of deadly weaponry, flows not only to Israel but to other countries in the region like Egypt and Jordan. Direct U.S. military support facilitated Saudi Arabia’s long, destructive, and unsuccessful war against the Houthis in Yemen, a conflict Washington is now conducting on its own with repeated air strikes. And of course, the entire region has, for more than two decades now, been under constant U.S. military pressure in that war on terror, which all too quickly became a war of terror (and of torture).

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William Astore, Forever War in the Middle East

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War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.


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