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My Memorial Day post: If a President Al Gore had invaded Iraq in 2003 with...

all the current GOP presidential candidates would agree now that it was a foolish act of hubris given that the administration had in hindsight clearly been shown to have simply not known what they were...

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“Africa is a Command”– Bush to Obama to Trump

By electing President Obama we got through with race and became post-racial.  Now that we have elected Trump we are surely done with “political correctness”, so lets us speak plainly.  What is “Africa”...

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“Six Years An Ambassador” : Godec’s Kenya valedictory with Macharia Gaitho

Macharia Gaitho seems to have been of late the designated Kenyan columnist to convey certain background perspectives from the American Embassy.  His April 8 Sunday Nation column provides in interview...

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Barack Obama, son of American anthropologist, retired President USA, stops in...

Ten years after 2008 campaign, the “Birthers” have won for now in the U.S., but Obama remains a positive symbol with time for another act: Former President Obama stopped in Kenya on his way to South...

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Should the United States offer to replace Ugandan and Burundian troops in...

This is in the nature of a “thought experiment” rather than an actual suggestion at this point, but here goes rough sketch of the basic points: 1) We all recognize–whether we are willing to publicly...

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“War, Guns and Votes”? What will be the impact of Kenya’s war with Al Shabaab...

AfriCommons, on Flickr After three months it is now quite clear, if it wasn’t always, that Kenya’s military offensive against Al Shabaab across the border and into the Jubbaland region will be of...

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Ramping up air strikes after 12 years, does the Trump Administration have a...

The Trump Administration’s escalation of the air power part of the war in Somalia in recent months has caught the attention of American journalists. See recent reporting in The New York Times and...

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A U.S. war with Iran would be a big set back for longterm American interests...

1. The basic rationale would be a version of the thinking in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2001-03: sanctions do not work forever, we have been in a low grade conflict mode for years against...

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Good news and bad news on the effectiveness of American “democracy...

The conjunction of war and democracy assistance has been brought back to the fore for me the publication by The Washington Post of its “Afghanistan Papers” series. The bottom line on the Afghanistan...

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Al-Shabaab Manda Bay attack investigation update from AFRICOM

AFRICOM public affairs has released today an update on the investigation of the January 5 al-Shabaab attack at Kenya’s Manda Bay and US air operations: U.S. Africa Command continues to investigate the...

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