Ryan Crocker: I foresee a very long insurgency by Hamas

Idea that ground invasion of Lebanon and occupation will make Galilee safer is ‘delusional’

TEHRAN - Former US ambassador Ryan Crocker, a veteran diplomat known as “America’s Lawrence of Arabia” for his deep understanding of the Middle East, tells Politico that the Israelis have forgotten their own recent history.

By Mahmood Monshipouri

The unwinnable war in Afghanistan: What is left to learn?

Long known as the “Graveyard of Empires,” Afghanistan has been vehemently inhospitable to outside intervention. The lessons that should be learned from the legion of failed outside attempts to conquer Afghanistan are varied and many and yet none have been taken deeply to heart by U.S. military strategists in recent decades.