Updated at 7:22 p.m. EDT, Oct. 31, 2009
At least three Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in attacks across Baghdad and Mosul. Security in Mosul was tightened ahead of Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s historic visit to the northern city. Kurdish President Massoud Barzani greeted the minister and praised Turkish efforts to address a decades old conflict between the Turkish government and Kurds.
Bob Gates’ Bad Bet
Jeff Huber hopes Gates bets low again on Afghanistan
Rights Groups Condemn Bid to Quash Goldstone Report
International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the U.S. House Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose any future endorsement or consideration of Judge Richard Goldstone’s "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict."
The Goldstone [...]
Kipling Haunts Obama’s Afghan War
Ray McGovern on the “White Man’s Burden”
Palestinians File Lawsuits Over Gaza War
RAMALLAH — As the legal and moral implications of the UN Goldstone report on Israel’s military assault on Gaza continue to mount, Gazans are taking matters into their own hands and preparing civil lawsuits.
The Israeli defense ministry’s prosecution department has received about 1,500 notices of future civil lawsuits [...]
On the Eve of WWIII?
Gordon Prather on the Iranian uranium deal
Friday: 2 US Soldiers, 4 Iraqis Killed; 7 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 7:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 30, 2009
At least four Iraqis were killed and seven more were wounded in very light, prayer day violence. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate non-combat incidents.
US, NATO Forces Rely on Afghan Warlords for Security
The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency forces on [...]
The Fruits of Intervention
Would we do it again? asks Pat Buchanan
30 Years On, Remembering Cambodia’s Holocaust
The aircraft flew low, following the Mekong River west from Vietnam. Once over Cambodia, what we saw silenced all of us on board. There appeared to be nobody, no movement, not even an animal, as if the great population of Asia had stopped at the border.
Whole [...]




