J. Michael Springmann, Author at Foreign Policy Journal

About the Author

J. Michael Springmann

J. Michael Springmann was a diplomat in the State Department’s Foreign Service, with postings to Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington, D.C. The published author of several articles on national security themes, he is now an attorney in private practice in the Washington, D.C. area.

Boston Baked BS: It Goes So Well With Turkeys When They’ve Come Home To Roost

Posted by J. Michael Springmann | May 10, 2013 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, US |

Virtually unremarked in the mainstream media uproar about the Boston Marathon deaths was their connection to past American foreign policy blunders: the CIA’s Arab Afghan Legion, and one of its targets, the Islamic areas of the old Soviet Union.