Although on the surface, things have been going well lately for President Bush on Iraq – the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the installing at long last of a permanent government in Iraq, and a vote of support in the U.S. House of Representatives for the...
With Ali Fadhil RAMADI - As the threat of a giant U.S. military operation in Ramadi lingers and sporadic clashes plague the city daily, residents struggle to cope, both inside and outside the sealed city. A week spent in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of...
When John J. Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and the heavyweight of the realist school of international affairs, and Stephen M. Walt, former dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, published their now famous...
Fourth-Generation HellWriting at a time when we're trying to sort out what happened at Haditha and why, Mr. Lind writes, "Blood Stripes does not paint a picture of an easy war. As a Marine officer said to me many years ago, 'If your unit is the one getting ambushed,...
For about the last 15 years, I've been an on-again, off-again member of Amnesty International (AI) – mainly on. When I've let my membership lapse, it's been due to my financial circumstances. But a letter I received from AI last month has persuaded me not to...
Editor's note: The following speech was delivered in the House of Representatives on June 16, 2006. Mr. Speaker, I requested this Special Order to read a statement that I earlier placed in the Record during the debate on the Iraq war resolution. I did not request time...
As the United States and India held yet another round of intensive talks this week to flesh out the landmark nuclear deal they signed in July, it became clear that they will both explore how far they can push each other for concessions that would ease Congressional...
with Alaa Hassan BAGHDAD - Basra in the south of Iraq is beginning to splinter under increasing violence and sectarian divisions. Smuggling of oil on a large scale coupled with increasing violence and the lack of basic services like water and electricity has caused...
For a day or two after the killing of terrorist gang leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, I was fantasizing that US President George W. Bush and his aides were finally getting smart when it came to Iraq. A few hours after the Jordanian-born head of al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed...
Ann Coulter, to use one of her favorite words, is an over-40 smart "broad" who makes a ton of money out of being controversial. She laughs all the way from her Palm Beach, Fla., mansion to the bank when Democrats and liberals get outraged by something she says or...
