Updated at 8:10 p.m. EST, Nov. 26, 2009
On the eve of Eid al-Adha, at least nine Iraqis were killed and 54 more wounded. The holiday, which commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son, is set to begin Friday for Sunnis and Saturday for Shi’ites.
read moreSettlements ‘Moratorium’ Still Short of Freeze
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed an announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday that Israel will impose a 10-month "moratorium" on settlements, but warned that the...
The Cost of War
Unforced Error
Groups Denounce Obama Rejection of Landmine Treaty
Human rights and disarmament activists reacted bitterly Wednesday to the decision by the administration of President Barack Obama, who will receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize next month, not to sign the 10-year-old treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. The U.S....
Wednesday: 20 Iraqis Killed, 52 Wounded
Updated at 10:20 p.m. EDT, Nov. 25, 2009
Just days before the start of the Eid al-Adha observances, at least 20 Iraqis were killed and 52 more were wounded. The most significant attack occurred in the holy city of Karbala.
read moreGovernment Terrorism Lists Are a Holiday Turkey
As the holiday travel season rolls around again, the government's terrorism watch list and no-fly list get ever more bizarre. Of course, for starters, the list has always been unconstitutional, because the government does not have probable cause to believe the vast...
Dumb and Dumber Wars
Michael O'Hanlon, a war hawk tank-thinker with the Brookings Institution who encouraged us to invade Iraq, says we should "remain hopeful" about Afghanistan. Even though the news about Afghanistan has been "dispiriting," O'Hanlon tells us,...
Who Will Protest Obama’s War?
Here we are on the verge of a momentous announcement – President Obama's unveiling of his "comprehensive plan" for escalating the war in Afghanistan – and where is the so-called antiwar movement? Missing in action, as this news report reveals: "'There's this...
As Obama Decides on Afghanistan, JFK’s Vietnam Deliberations Worth Recalling
The pressure that has been on Barack Obama with respect to reinforcement of the war in Afghanistan resembles that placed on John F. Kennedy to send American combat troops to Vietnam during the 18 months before his assassination. Kennedy made an early decision that...
