Timothy W. Crawford and Alan J. Kuperman, ed.'s, Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2006), 100 pp. The wreck of the Bush crusade to democratize Iraq let alone the Mideast, let alone the world!...
Thelma and Louise Imperialism: Over the Cliff with George and Dick?
Let me make an argument about Bush administration Iran policy about the possibility that a regime-change-style, shock-and-awe air assault might someday be launched on Iranian nuclear facilities and associated targets based on no insider knowledge, just...
Is Bombing Iran Bush’s Call?
In aborting Iran's nuclear program, "all options are on the table." Some version of this threat against Iran has lately been made by John McCain, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Mitt Romney. Yet, if an attack on Iran is among "options ... on the table," who put it...
Arabs Less Worried About Iran
U.S. and Israeli hopes of forging of a Sunni Arab alliance to contain Iran and its regional allies may be misplaced, at least at the popular level, according to a major survey of six Arab countries released here Thursday. The face-to-face survey of a total of 3,850...
Lebanon, Again
The Israelis, stung by their defeat at the hands of Hezbollah, are aching for a rematch. There have been a number of border incidents since the IDF retreated and the blockade was lifted, the most recent and most brazen occurring when the Israelis crossed...
Reprieve for Officer Who Denounced ‘Immoral War’
The court-martial of the first commissioned U.S. military officer to refuse to serve in Iraq ended abruptly Wednesday when the military judge overseeing the proceedings declared a mistrial over a technicality. At issue, according to the judge, Lt. Col. John Head, was...
Friday: 3 GIs, 1 Briton, 35 Iraqis Killed; 54 Iraqis Wounded
Updated at 11:55 p.m. EST, Feb. 9, 2007 During a series of raids, Coalition troops killed a number of alleged militia members. Also, sectarian violence continued throughout the country despite a security crackdown. Overall, 35 Iraqis were killed and 54 more were...
Listen to the Foxes, Not Hedgehogs, on Iraq
I have read the report on and parts of the (declassified) text of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's future, the official assessment issued by key American intelligence agencies. It outlines three possible scenarios for the U.S.-occupied country: The...
The Pentagon’s Secret Air War in Iraq
Just last week, in a typical air strike of the Iraq War, two missiles were fired at targets somewhere in the city of Ramadi, capital of al-Anbar province in the heartland of the Sunni insurgency, in the course of a battle with American forces stationed there....
Ahtisaari’s ‘Final Solution’
Last Friday, the UN's special envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, presented his proposal for the future status of Kosovo to the government in Belgrade and the provisional Albanian government in Pristina. Kosovo, also known as Kosovo-Metohija, is province of Serbia...


