At least five Iraqis were killed and 16 others were wounded in new violence across the country. Also, critics are condemning what they describe as the latest move by the Maliki administration to consolidate his power.
The news that the administration has agreed to one-on-one talks with Iran will no doubt be brought up at the upcoming foreign policy debate, with Mitt Romney averring this is yet more evidence of the Obama administration’s “weakness.” Talking, you see, is weakness: killing is proof of strength. That’s the Republican approach to foreign affairs. …
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A Pattern of Provocations”
First the financial system collapses and it’s impossible to access one’s money. Then the power and water systems stop functioning. Within days, society has begun to break down. In the cities, mothers and fathers roam the streets, foraging for food. The country finds itself fractured and fragmented — hardly recognizable. It may sound like a …
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A double bombing that took place in Baghdad could foreshadow a violent flare-up later this week during the Eid al-Adha holiday. At least 18 Iraqis were killed in the bombing and other attacks. Another 51 were wounded. Also, an insurgent believed to be from Yemen was killed.
Two Iraqis were killed and eight more were wounded in light violence.
In 1948, George Orwell published his classic dystopian novel 1984, flipping the numbers in the publication year to speed us into a future that is now, of course, 28 years in our past. In that book, he imagined a three-superpower world of regularly shifting alliances in which war was a constant but its specific nature …
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Back in the early 1990s, before Antiwar.com was founded, I was a regular at a roundtable discussion group sponsored by the late Bill Rusher, a founding editor of National Review: these seminars were organized by a young man associated with a prominent conservative educational organization. Bill lent us a room at the posh Union Club, …
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At least seven Iraqis were killed and 17 more were wounded in new violence. Also, many Sahwa members in the Kirkuk area are threatening to quit their jobs. A number of Sahwa members quit their jobs and abandoned their posts in Hawija and Kirkuk. The men say their demands have not been met, but local …
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How many times have you heard the truism that in modern-day America the cover-up is often as troubling as the crime? That is becoming quite apparent in the case of the death of Chris Stevens, the former U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens and three State Department employees were murdered in the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, …
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