As the United Kingdom commemorates the seventieth anniversary of victory in WWII, Cameron must be left with a nagging worry that he will be the prime minister who presided over the end of Britain.
The continued dominance of multi-billion dollar Mexican drug cartels cannot be seen as separate from the aggressive drug policies emanating from the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ayatollah Khamenei went to such lengths to reassure everyone that he still was committed to the negotiations, he probably did not intend to derail them. He’s posturing for a home audience.
Putin is far from unique among politicians in attempting to manipulate history. But a true “history man” is primarily a truth-seeker. He fails in this.
Those who have made legends of fighters like Kyle and Juba rarely concern themselves with vexing ethical issues. Over a decade of war in Iraq has clearly anesthetized both societies and generated a need to create war heroes to make sense of it all.
Some commentators and journalists seem to think these are simply to continue beheading, oppressing and terrorizing. But self-proclaimed Caliph al-Baghdadi and his ansar have more concrete aims in mind.
In the 1950s, the Arab world was led by states that were nationalist, ambitious and secular; it was the collapse of Arab nationalism that opened the door to fundamentalist Islam.
