Wednesday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 14 Wounded
Updated at 7:16 p.m. EDT, March 17, 2010
With final results from national elections expected later this week, an apparent dead heat between the two front-runners could signal months of political wrangling ahead. Meanwhile, at least three Iraqis were killed and 14 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Kurds spent the day commemorating the 1988 Halabja massacre, for which Chemical Ali was executed only this year. Also, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted misinforming the Chilcot Inquiry over defense spending for Iraq.
read moreUS-Israel Tensions Continue to Percolate
Despite assurances by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tuesday that the United States and Israel share a "close, unshakable bond," the week-old crisis between the two allies continued to percolate Tuesday. Washington canceled a planned trip to the region...
Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government. The contract built upon his decade-long experience in running...
The Panicky Eagle Circles the Dragon
China's premier, Wen Jiabao, has thrown the U.S. press and Congress into a tizzy with statements at his annual meeting with the press. The New York Times grumbles on page one that China is employing the dastardly tactic of "using the rules" of international...
Making Unneeded Enemies in Somalia
Although the Clinton administration's debacle in Somalia in the early 1990s is most famous – as depicted in the Hollywood blockbuster Black Hawk Down – more recent American meddling by the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations may have worse long-term...
Israel vs. America: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
The brouhaha over what Hillary Clinton said was Israel's calculated "insult" to the United States is escalating into what many characterize as a "crisis" in US-Israeli relations, a turning point in which the terms of the "special...
Tuesday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 19 Wounded
Updated at 10:52 p.m EDT, Mar. 16, 2010
At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 19 more were wounded in various attacks. The worst one took place just south of Baghdad. Meanwhile, former P.M. Ayad Allawi’s political bloc took the lead in the vote count today.
read moreLawyers, Guns, and Blackwater
It's shameful enough for the country that spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined to hire mercenaries to fight its woebegone wars; the mercenaries we hire are hooligans who we kicked out of our overpriced military. As Tim McGlone of The...
