Leave it to the Americans to consider their foreign policy in terms of a family drama: the current narrative is that Rummy's exit signals the arrival of Daddy's Wise Men to bail out Junior from the mess he's made in the Iraqi sandbox. Like a frat boy who has maxed out...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The decision of the giant engineering company Bechtel to withdraw from Iraq has left many Iraqis feeling betrayed. In its departure they see the end of remaining hopes for the reconstruction of Iraq. "It is much worse than in the...
[Adapted from remarks given before the Njegos Endowment for Serbian Studies, Columbia University, New York, Nov. 3.] Not Decided Yet If one were to be informed strictly by the mainstream media in the English-speaking world, it would be very hard to harbor any doubts...
The Queen, a film directed by Stephen Frears with Helen Mirren in an Oscar-winning performance as Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, is meant to be the cinematic account of the composed – well, chilly – response by the queen to the death of Princess Diana in a...
The wave – and make no mistake, it's a global one – has just crashed on our shores, soaking our imperial masters. It's a sight for sore eyes. It's been a long time since we've seen an election like midterm 2006. After all, it's a truism of our politics that...
Updated at 12:30 p.m. EST, Nov. 10, 2006 A second day of increased violence follows the lifting of curfews designed to quell violence resulting from the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Today, 104 Iraqis were killed and another 203 were...
Much to the chagrin of the Pentagon's comptroller, Tina Jonas (who has a B.A. in political science from Arizona State University and an M.A. in liberal studies from Georgetown University – although you would think that the chief financial officer for a $500...
With Ali al-Fadhily BAGHDAD - The Facilities Protection Service (FPS) created after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has become the principal set of death squads in Iraq, senior leaders say. "The first accomplishment of Paul Bremer [former U.S. administrator in Iraq]...
In the end, it didn't matter what John Kerry said or didn't say: it didn't matter that Saddam Hussein was condemned to death, and, most of all, it didn't matter that the White House fell back on its post-9/11 strategy of implying that a vote for the Democrats is a...
In the wake of U.S. elections and the lifting of curfews, the persistent violence in Iraq resumed at an accelerated pace. At least 199 Iraqis were killed or reported dead and 137 more were injured in various attacks around the country. Three foreigners either serving...
