The United Nations, which has remained deadlocked over Syria, is in danger of being craftily exploited to justify the impending air strike on Damascus. The threat of double vetoes by Russia and China against an attack on Syria has shifted the focus to the UN team of inspectors whose report on the chemical weapons attack …
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"Promoting democracy can be messy in the short-run and isn’t always possible in every circumstance but, in general, it is the best long-term bet for promoting American interests" – Max Boot in Commentary, 8/20/13 Promoting democracy is "messy" all right, especially when one considers the waves of humanity picking up, leaving their homes and wondering …
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At least 25 people were killed and 28 more were wounded in attacks that focused on security forces.
Sometimes history happens at the moment when no one is looking. On weekends in late August, the president of the United States ought to be playing golf or loafing at Camp David, not making headlines. Yet Barack Obama chose Labor Day weekend to unveil arguably the most consequential foreign policy shift of his presidency. In …
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The world holds its collective breath as the President of the United States calls for military action in Syria, Congress debates the question, and the war-sickened American public asks: What’s next? I’ll tell you what’s next. 1) The President dominates the airwaves with two days of interviews culminating in another Obama peroration in which Hitler, …
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Some progressives remain conflicted about how the United States should respond to Syria’s increasingly violent civil war. This internal division has only deepened as the Obama administration considers launching a military strike on Bashar al-Assad for an alleged chemical attack by regime forces on civilians last month. Many progressives are rightly skeptical about involving the …
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Today, at least 19 people were killed in ongoing attacks, while another 23 were wounded.
Thirteen Iraqis were killed today, while the remains of 80 Kurds killed during the 1980s in the Anfal campaign were discovered in a mass grave.
It was September 19, 2002, and US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was scheduled to address the Senate Armed Services Committee about why it was necessary to invade a country that never attacked us: Iraq. I was so concerned about the pending war that I flew to Washington DC from my home in San Francisco. …
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At least four Iraqis were killed and 10 more were wounded in newly reported attacks. In Iraqi Kurdistan, rare political violence occurred today and earlier this week. Elections will take place there later this month.
