President George W Bush announced during his recent Middle East trip that he is formally serving notice to Congress of his administration's decision to approve the sale of bomb-guidance kits to Saudi Arabia. This announcement follows notification on five other arms...
Speaking to the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia in May 2005, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made two important observations: "[T]his conflict [what the administration calls the Global War on Terrorism or GWOT] cannot be won by military means...
A Jan. 21 Los Angeles Times Iraq piece by Ned Parker and Saif Rasheed led with an inter-tribal suicide bombing at a gathering in Fallujah in which members of the pro-American Anbar Awakening Council were killed. ("Asked why one member of his Albu Issa tribe would kill...
With just less than one year left in his presidency, George W. Bush remains as focused as ever on the Middle East and Iraq and appears reluctant to take on any major new foreign policy challenges in the time that he remains in power. That appears to be the consensus...
President George W. Bush signed a $696 billion Pentagon spending bill immediately before his State of the Union address Monday night, which funds all Defense Department programs not directly tied to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, expands health care for injured...
The president's State of the Union speech was pointedly ignored, even while it was going on, according to the report filed by The Hill, the Beltway's newspaper of record. All eyes were on the two Democratic presidential aspirants, whose closely watched nonverbal cues...
Updated at 9:00 p.m EST, Jan. 30, 2008A flurry of small bombings continued in and around Baghdad for the second day in a row. Overall, at least 28 Iraqis were killed and 35 more wounded throughout the country. No Coalition deaths were reported. Also, two new studies...
It is perhaps no surprise that the media and chattering class in Israel are following the U.S. presidential nominating process with an intensity not to be seen anywhere else. The interest is somewhat odd, given that no fundamental shift in the U.S.-Israel relationship...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has garnered headlines around the world for his defiance of Washington, as well as his rhetorical grandstanding on Palestinian issues, the existence of Israel, and his government's alleged support of Shi'ite militias in Iraq....
Updated at 8:30 p.m EST, Jan. 29, 2008At least 61 Iraqis were killed and another 56 were wounded in attacks mostly targeting civilians and security personnel. Nineteen of the victims were found in a gruesome discovery in Muqdadiyah. The DOD reported that a U.S....
