Ever since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected Iran's president in June 2005 and began using strong rhetoric against Israel, the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby have been trying to provoke a war against Iran, or at the very least persuade the United States and the...
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Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?
Our Volunteer Army: Two Wars and Counting
Terror Trials Are Our Defining Moment
Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East that he inherited from George W. Bush's "global war on terror." From Palestine to Pakistan, Obama, who also...
Friday: 1 US Sailor, 7 Iraqis Killed; 13 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 9:30 p.m. EST, Nov. 20, 2009
At least seven Iraqis were killed and 13 more were wounded in light violence. A U.S. sailor was killed in a vehicle rollover in Kuwait. The elections law deadlock continues to be the source of most news coming from Iraq.
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US Credibility as Peace Broker Eroding by the Day
In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, movement in the standoff between the two sides can be as often backward as it is forward. The past couple of weeks have seen moves from both sides that have garnered the attention of the world, but forward progress remains elusive....