Thursday: 3 Iraqis Killed, 32 Wounded
At least three Iraqis were killed and 32 more were wounded in the latest attacks. Also, the U.N. confirmed a significant number of fatalities stemming from last week’s raid on an Iranian dissident camp in Diyala.
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US Keeps Quiet Over Arab Allies’ Repression
If President Barack Obama wanted to place Washington "on the right side of history" during the ongoing "Arab Spring," his reaction to recent events in Bahrain will likely make that far more difficult, according to a growing number of analysts and...
Wednesday: 2 Iraqis Killed, 28 Wounded
At least two Iraqis were killed and 28 more were wounded in the latest attacks, but it was a massive sandstorm that killed or harmed even more people today.
read morePakistan Moves to Curb More Aggressive US Drone Strikes, Spying
The Pakistani military's recent demands on the United States to curb drone strikes and reduce the number of U.S. spies operating in Pakistan, which have raised tensions between the two countries to a new high, were a response to U.S. military and intelligence programs...
Language and American Perceptions of the World
Imagine for a moment that you were preparing for a fact-finding trip to a foreign country and that you had to choose between background reports produced by two competing informants. The first is by a person who has visited the place on a number of occasions in...
Murdering Some to Save Others
In a recent New York Times op-ed titled “Is It Better to Save No One?,” liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof implicitly attacks the critics of the U.S. intervention in Libya as being heartless and/or immoral. Though he acknowledges the hypocrisy and inconsistency of...
Was Obama Stampeded Into War?
"NATO is moving very slowly, allowing Gadhafi forces to advance," said rebel leader Abdul Fattah Younis, as the Libyan army moved back to the outskirts of Ajdabiya, gateway city to Benghazi. "NATO has become our problem." Younis is implying that if NATO does not stop...
US Out of Iraq. Really.
When the United States begins to draw down overseas military forces from trouble spots, the American media, and therefore the public, assumes the show is over and loses interest. This waning of attention and interest has happened in Iraq and is dangerous. This...
