For those of you of a certain age, you may remember the refrain from that Crosby Stills and Nash song: "we have all been here before." We have indeed. But not in the quasi-mystical sense the boys of rock & roll meant it. Rather, the Middle East seems to draw the U.S. regularly into massive military interventions which end badly for us and for the … [Read more...]
Trump’s Reign of Error and the March to War
Pres. Trump today continued his reign of error in hectoring Iran about its malign influence in the Middle East. Virtually every claim, every statement he made about Iran was false. Not to mention that he directly contradicted reports from his own Pentagon that it was considering sending up to 10,000 more troops to the region to buttress the U.S. presence … [Read more...]
Israeli Arms Exporter Demonstrated Drone to Azeri Buyers by Attacking Armenian Army Positions
Yossi Melman reports in Maariv (after the Maariv story and this post was published, Haaretz also reported on this) that the Israeli drone manufacturer, Aeronautics, sought a contract to sell military drones to Azerbaijan. Though the Orbiter 1K drone the Azeris contemplated buying had been tested in battle, in order to seal the deal, they demanded to see the … [Read more...]
Israel Establishes Syrian Rebel Base in Israel, Treats Radical Islamist Wounded
UPDATE: Within hours of originally publishing this post, Arab media reported that Israeli war planes attacked two military targets near Damascus. This would make at least the sixth Israeli invasion of Syrian territorial sovereignty to attack military-security targets. Nicholas Blanford seems to have summed up the situation pretty well: “Usually we have … [Read more...]
