The bulk of expert opinion predicts that the Bush administration's escalation strategy in Iraq will fail. The void created by the administration's lack of a backup plan for that outcome has been filled with proposals from pundits, academics, and think-tank analysts,...
TEHRAN - As a Shia majority country with several large ethnic groups like the Kurds, Arabs, and Baluchis that follow the Sunni faith, Iran has for years been vulnerable to unrest, riots, and terrorist attacks that officials routinely attribute to foreign powers....
Updated at 7:45 p.m. EST, Mar. 6, 2007 At least 215 Iraqis were killed or found dead today and another 406 Iraqis were wounded in various incidents. Many of the dead and injured were pilgrims on their way to Karbala for a religious observance. In a dramatic jailbreak...
Murder, Inc. Dear Justin, I am an adjunct political philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame. I gave a lecture on Abu Ghraib a few years back in which I basically expressed the ideas that you articulated in this column. So, thanks for putting it in print....
Interviewed Feb. 14, 2007. Click here to listen. Our guest is Wayne White. He is an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and former deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Office of Analysis for the Near East and South...
How much is the U.S. war on Iraq costing you? That depends on who you are. For Iraqis, Americans, or Brits who were killed, it cost them everything. I say it in that order because that is the order in numbers killed. So far, a conservative estimate of the number of...
Nothing reminds us more of how much the American constitutional system has been transformed, of just how extreme the "imperial presidency" has become, than Congress' generally woeful record in the second half of the last century and in the first years of this one to...
We should have known it was coming. Even though the Democratic Party rode the antiwar wave in to Congress last November, they've done little since to end the bloody war in Iraq. Just last week House Democrats met to discuss how best to halt Bush's request to send more...
It had to happen sooner or later, and Barack Obama's startling rise to near the top of the Democratic presidential pack made it sooner – I'm talking about his speech to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). It starts out with a riff about his ride...
Updated at 1:15 a.m. EST, Mar. 6, 2007At least 126 Iraqis were reported killed or found dead and another 196 Iraqis were injured, including 30 people who had been held captive and tortured in southern Iraq. Also, bombings and shootings continued in Baghdad despite the...
