Terrorism leads to panicked over-reaction. Yesterday I posted about Kenneth Pollack’s valuable Iraq Military Situation Report that appeared June 14 on the website of the Brookings Institution where he’s a senior fellow in the Saban Center for […]
It could bog down like the Iran-Iraq War. Kenneth Pollack is infamous for his 2002 book The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq. That doesn’t mean he’s incapable of producing valuable […]
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria may be clever and rich but stoking the revenge machine reveals how impoverished its collective imagination is. Over the weekend the Sunni militants of Islamic […]
It’s ironic that Iraq’s last two enemies now stand ready to defend it against a third enemy, ISIS. The advance of ISIS into Baghdad is on hold at the moment in part […]
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may not be as bad as Saddam Hussein, but he’s only slightly less worse. In yet another definitive piece for the New Yorker titled What We Left […]
U.S. Marines react to loss of Falluja to al Qaeda affiliate ISIS. After the fall of Falluja to al Qaeda affiliate the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, disappointment was expressed by […]
A couple of weeks ago Larison reminded us that the costs of Iraq are still with us. Citing a new report on a new study about Iraqi war deaths, Max Fisher of […]
Today, as covered by nearly everyone, Secretary of State John Kerry said: “The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral […]
As if Iran Isn’t Noticing [Philip Coyle of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation] worries that the overall effect of the White House’s about-face on nuclear weapons policy could prove counterproductive. “We […]
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally […]
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