Harvard’s Stephen Walt waltzed past the facts in his “Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War”

Harvard Professor Stephen M. Walt’s March 20, 2012 article in Foreign Policy Magazine reflects yet another example of the bash America liberal elite this time in a superficial attempt at describing the “Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War,” without regard, of course, for the realities on the ground.. http://atfp.co/1TlspN4

It is far too early to declare whether the US won or lost in Iraq. Yet Harvard Professor Stephan Walt contends in his Lesson #1: The United States lost. It’s true after countless interviews and interrogations of high level Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein; there was no resurgence of a WMD program in Iraq. US intelligence agencies weren’t the only ones with “definitive” evidence of WMDs: Israelis, Italians, French, and British all purportedly had independent intelligence supporting a restart of a threatening WMD program in Iraq. Saddam Hussein proved quite effective in his efforts to mislead the West about his WMD intentions and capabilities.

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Is Israel telegraphing to the world an imminent move against Iranian nuclear facilities? Oil traders think so!

The ratcheting up of rhetoric by Israeli officials focused on Iranian nuclear ambitions has culminated in recent weeks with an Israeli military official describing the threat to Israel as greater than the threat they faced during the run up to the Six day War, and the Aug 6 op-ed piece in the WSJ by Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the US, stating that the window for effective action against Iran is narrowing quickly. The importance of Amb Oren’s comments is that an Israeli official is placing a time frame for Israeli/Western response.

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