How, in the name of all that's holy, could a rational human being look at what's going on in Iraq and hold out any hope of "success" for America's colonial project? The American and Iraqi casualty rates are soaring, the government of Iraq is collapsing, the Turks are...
Editor's note: The following is an encore presentation of David R. Henderson's column of July 31, 2006. Sometimes, something happens that is so awful that we find ourselves rationalizing it, talking as if it had to happen, to make ourselves feel better about the...
Updated at 11:55 p.m EDT, Aug. 6, 2007At least 123 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 131 more were wounded during violence that included a significant truck bombing in Tal Afar. Also, eight GIs were killed and 15 more were wounded in separate events. Four Task...
Updated at 11:58 p.m. EDT, Aug. 5, 2007At least 116 Iraqis were killed or found dead and 49 were wounded during the latest round of attacks. Sixty were found dumped together in Baquba. Ten people were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint as well. Also, four American...
Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essential. And if the...
A couple of policy wonks, Michael O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack, spent a week in Iraq and came back. One said he thought it was less violent. They both said in an op-ed piece that the war was winnable. It's characters like these who make a man like Juan Cole so valuable....
BAGHDAD - The recent resignations of Iraq's Army Chief of Staff and several of his council military leaders underscore a continuing decomposition of Iraq's US-backed government. Everybody in Iraq – politicians, political analysts, poets, scientists, porters...
Political factions Fatah and Hamas must reconcile in order to pursue a sustainable peace in the Palestinian territories, and if and when a power-sharing agreement is brokered, the international community must be willing to accept it, according to a recent report by...
When the United States sells state-of-the-art weapons systems to Arab nations, it invariably provides even more lethal and sophisticated arms to its steadfast ally, Israel, in order to help counter the firepower of its neighbors. So, when Egypt gets the M60A3 and M1A1...
When Bill Clinton became President, there were five acknowledged nuke-armed states – the United States, United Kingdom, France, China and Russia. Back in in the late 1960s those five states had persuaded about 150 other states that didn’t have nukes to...
