Keep pulling the thread on Scott Horton.
Immediately after 9/11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld proposed bombing Baghdad to signal to the American public that the War on Terror would be a long-term conflict not limited to capturing bin Laden.
At the 1986 Reykjavik Summit, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev were close to finalizing a deal to abolish all nuclear weapons.
The George W. Bush administration denied requests from CIA and Delta Force commanders for reinforcements needed to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora in December 2001.
The potential deal between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to abolish nuclear weapons at the 1986 Reykjavik Summit failed because of Reagan's refusal to abandon the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") missile defense program.
Russia is believed by the U.S. to have a nuclear doctrine of "escalate to de-escalate," which involves the first use of a tactical nuclear weapon to compel an adversary to back down in a conventional conflict.
According to a US war game scenario, the American response to a Russian "escalate to de-escalate" nuclear strike would be to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike on Belarus to demonstrate superior resolve.
US Delta Force was prohibited by the Bush administration from pursuing Osama bin Laden into Pakistan after the battle of Tora Bora, despite having plans and prior arrangements with Pakistan to do so.
The speaker asserts that the second Iraq War was primarily initiated for the benefit of Israel and was driven by neoconservatives.
In 1996, neoconservatives David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith authored a policy paper for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm."
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reversed the "strategy of the periphery" by initiating the Oslo peace process to negotiate directly with Arab states and make a deal with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.
According to an Israeli strategist cited by Trita Parsi, Israel began emphasizing the threat of "radical Islam" after the Cold War to provide a new strategic justification for its alliance with the United States, replacing the shared threat of the Soviet Union.
Israel and Iran maintained a secret oil pipeline, run by Marc Rich's company, from the port of Aqaba to Israel, which ceased operation after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government adopted a hostile policy towards Iran.