The bloodless coup against a democratically elected government in Thailand last month has forced the United States to review its military relations and suspend aid to one of Washington's long-standing political allies in Southeast Asia. The administration of U.S....
Updated at 10:45 p.m. EDT, Oct. 6, 2006 Today's reports from Iraq state that 56 people have been killed and 23 wounded in recent incidents related to the war or sectarian violence. Among the dead or injured are three soldiers, who succumbed to wounds received from...
Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World Anatol Lieven and John Hulsman Pantheon, 2006 199 pp. George W. Bush still has more than two years to serve as president, but it isn't too early to proclaim his foreign policy to be a failure. America no longer...
With Salam Talib Students at Iraq's universities were to start the new school year this week – no small task given the daily barrage of violence that surrounds them. "Our ministry is the Ministry of Higher Education, so we don't have a military and we can't make...
Sometimes, the proximate cause of an unraveling, even an implosion, may catch everyone by surprise. This week the "tipping point" (to borrow a Bush administration phrase from the Iraq War) for the possible unraveling of Republican control of Congress may be the...
When an administration is in trouble right before an election, it sometimes resorts to an "October surprise" designed to build support. Certainly this administration has trouble on a number of fronts, including the Abramoff scandal, congressional corruption,...
Updated at 11:00 p.m. EDT, Oct. 5, 2006 In the last day, at least 73 Iraqis have been reported killed and another 58 wounded, including the discovery of at least 30 bodies throughout the capital. There are also reports that Abu Ayyub al-Masri was among four killed in...
Bosnian Elections Redraw Old Battle Lines Citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina went to the polls this Sunday, in a general election for the country's presidency and entity parliaments. Bosnian Serbs also voted for their republic's president, while voters in the Muslim-Croat...
A U.S. soldier who went AWOL – away without leave – over his opposition to the war in Iraq was incarcerated at the U.S. military's Mannheim prison in Germany Tuesday, pending an appeal in Washington this November. Augustin Aguayo's imprisonment comes less...
President George W. Bush and his peripatetic secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, may believe that they have broken with 60 years of U.S. policy in order to "transform" the Middle East, but to longtime regional observers, their latest initiatives look...
