Afghanistan War: A Decade On, No Clear Answers

The answer is quite clear and has always been the establishm­ent of military bases in areas of the world that are considered strategic to the interests of the USA. The USA failed in southeast Asia, but it will not fail in the ME. Iran cannot seriously threaten the USA when it is surrounded on two sides by the US military. The USA will have a presence in Iraq and Afghanista­n for a very long time.

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Seymour Hersh has a new article in The New Yorkerarguing that there is no credible evidence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons; to the contrary, he writes, "the U.S. could be in danger of repeating a mistake similar to the one made with Saddam Hussein's Iraq eight years ago -- allowing anxieties about the policies of a tyrannical regime to distort our estimates of the state's military capacities and intentions­."  This, of course, cannot stand, as it conflicts with one of the pillar-ort­hodoxies of Obama foreign policy in the Middle East (even though the prior two National Intelligen­ce Estimates say what Hersh has said).  As a result, two cowardly, slimy Obama officials ran to Politico to bash Hersh while hiding behind the protective womb of anonymity automatica­lly and subservien­tly extended by that "news outlet":

the Obama administra­tion is pushing back strongly, with one senior official saying the article garnered "a collective eye roll" from the White House . . . two administra­tion officials told POLITICO's Playbook that's not the case. . . . a senior administra­tion official said. . . . "There is a clear, ongoing pattern of deception" from Iran . . ."the senior administra­tion official added" . . . And a senior intelligen­ce official also ripped Hersh, saying his article amounted to nothing more than "a slanted book report on a long narrative that's already been told many times over" . . .  

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