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This reported end-of-war agreement shows its pointlessness
by Mel Gurtov 754 words We’ve seen this movie several times already: Trump issues threats, Iran refuses to kneel, negotiators rush to Qatar, Trump or Rubio announces an imminent deal, and then optimism evaporates as it becomes clear that the two sides are miles apart. At which point the US resumes military action and Iran…
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Is Trump fit to nuke the world?
by Robert C. Koehler 846 words If nothing else, Donald Trump pushes the nation’s – the world’s – thought process beyond anything that feels normal and comfortable. Consider the “MADness” of the last eight decades: You know, how “mutually assured destruction” has kept humanity from nuking itself into oblivion because . . . uh, mass…
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The frightful cost of war and a bubble gum card
by Charles Howlett 922 words In his award-winning book about World War I, the historian Paul Fussell began The Great War and Modern Memory with the words: “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.” He was all too correct. During four years of bloodshed, 1914 to 1918, at least 8.5 million combatants were killed,…