IPS News journalist Gareth Porter discusses “How the U.S. Quietly Lost the IED War in Afghanistan;” President Obama’s rhetorical style of chest-thumping warmongering; how every (incredibly expensive) US countermeasure against IED’s is defeated by simple, cheap modifications in bomb design; the surge in US casualties that followed Obama’s troop escalation in Afghanistan; a fourth round of P5+1 Iran talks concerning sanctions relief and 20% uranium enrichment; and evidence that even Israel’s Defense Ministry is giving up on war with Iran.
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