Given what we left behind in Iraq, it remains beyond anyone, even the nasty men who started the war in 2003, to claim victory or accomplishment or achievement there.
There is a logic to the violence in Iraq. It's regarded by those in power as better than public accountability, and by those in opposition as promising direct access to power.
The troops are protesting "by any other means" their entrapment in a no-win landscape where Washington politicians keep a war going beyond the limit of sanity.
Nobody seems to care about the consequences of a US or Israeli strike on Iran, which could include the release of radioactive materials into the Middle East.
Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch.com. February 19, 2012.
A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair.
The U.S. military presence in Iraq was marked by the callous American attitude toward civilians, and the thorough lack of accountability in the military justice system.
Drones crossed into a new frontier in military affairs: an area of entirely risk-free, remote and even potentially automated killing detached from human behavioral cues.
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com. November 27, 2011.
A lawsuit being heard this month will likely define the free speech rights of federal employees and so determine the quality of people who will make up our government.
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 13, 2011.
Don’t let anyone say that the United States got nothing out of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Americans take home a fitting prize: Saddam's toilet.
Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, AlterNet. October 24, 2011.
Contrary to what you're likely to hear from the political and media establishment, the only thing worth celebrating is this war's end, not what it accomplished.
