Foreign Policy

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McCain's Lesson From Iraq: Surge Hard, But Don't Lie America Into War So Much

An an event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, the senator from Arizona dinged the Bush administration and talked a lot about surging.

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| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 4:09 PM PDT
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The Pentagon Is Spending $1 Billion to Protect America From North Korea's Nonexistent Long-Range Nuclear Missiles

... and GOP congressmen love the idea.

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| Mon Mar. 18, 2013 7:59 AM PDT

PHOTOS: Out of Saddam's Shadow

Ten years after the US-led invasion, Iraqi Kurdistan is thriving.

By Donald Weber/VII/Magnum Foundation/Text by Hannah Levintova

 | Fri Mar. 15, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Report: The CIA Increasing Operations in Iraq

Officials cite concern over potential extremist spillover from the conflict in neighboring Syria.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 2:30 PM PDT

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Admiral Samuel J. Locklear, commander of the Pacific Command.

Climate Change is Biggest Threat, Says Top Navy Commander in Pacific

The top US Navy commander in the Pacific says that global climate change is likely to be our biggest security threat in the region.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:14 AM PDT

How I Was Offered My Very Own Safari

I spent weeks trying to reach the founder and former head of a mysterious corporate-backed environmental group. Here's what happened when I finally got him on the phone.

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| Tue Mar. 12, 2013 3:00 AM PDT

The Drone Strikes We Really Should Worry About

Forget about Rand Paul's hypothetical, say critics—what about the many civilians we're killing abroad?

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| Mon Mar. 11, 2013 8:33 AM PDT

Republicans Are Furious at Obama for Prosecuting an Alleged Terrorist

The real agenda of Sen. Lindsey Graham and company? Get more prisoners to Gitmo.

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| Fri Mar. 8, 2013 11:06 AM PST
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How Climate Change Worsened Violence in Syria

International security experts explain how low rainfall can evolve into violent conflict.

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| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 2:41 PM PST
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Drones: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Always Afraid to Ask

Which other nations have them? Did they exist during the Civil War? What do they have to do with tacos and rhinos?

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| Tue Mar. 5, 2013 4:00 AM PST

Osama Bin Laden Was Killed at Least 6 Different Ways

Two years later there are multiple divergent accounts of the mission—even from Navy SEALs who helped take bin Laden down.

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| Fri Feb. 22, 2013 4:00 AM PST

Meet the 3 Chinese Hackers Pwned by Mandiant

A gorilla fancier and a Harry Potter fan apparently took part in cyber attacks on the United States.

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| Tue Feb. 19, 2013 1:26 PM PST

World Leaders React to North Korea Nuclear Test

The rogue nation carried out a third nuclear test Tuesday, in defiance of UN resolutions.

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| Tue Feb. 12, 2013 11:15 AM PST
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In the Context of "1,000 Years" of Warfare, Drones Are "More Humane"

Saying that US drones are "a lot more civilized" and more "humane" way of doing war-related business is technically true. But that's not really the point.

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| Mon Feb. 11, 2013 12:59 PM PST

Senator: Let's Have a Targeted Killing Court

A freshman senator from Maine suggests a court that would consider warrants for targeted killing.

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| Thu Feb. 7, 2013 5:35 PM PST
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Report: These 54 Foreign Governments Helped the CIA Torture, Detain, and Transport Suspects After 9/11

The Open Society Justice Initiative's detailed report lists Belgium, Libya, Iran, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and dozens of others as complicit in the US' controversial anti-terror operations.

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| Tue Feb. 5, 2013 4:01 PM PST

Corn on MSNBC: Does McCain Have a Grudge Against Chuck Hagel?
Thu Jan. 31, 2013 5:30 PM PST

On Hagel Day, We Recall His Half-Courageous Stand on the Iraq War

And half a courageous stand is better than none.

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| Thu Jan. 31, 2013 7:47 AM PST

Here Is a List of Extremists Who Agree With Chuck Hagel on Ending Nukes

You know, like Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger.

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| Tue Jan. 29, 2013 3:16 PM PST

When John Kerry Was a Lone Hero in Congress

As a junior senator who fiercely investigated foreign-policy wrongdoing in the 1980s and 1990s, the soon-to-be secretary of state showed lots of guts.

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| Thu Jan. 24, 2013 9:20 AM PST