Nir Rosen describes the remarkable progress U.S. social workers are making in Iraq:In the beginning of the occupation I entered a taxi and asked the driver what he thought of the events in Iraq. He looked away and started crying. I asked him if somebody in his family...
Can anyone read Juan Cole's posts for today and not wonder if the civil war in Iraq has already begun? Did the Republicans try to kill the 9/11 commission to prevent Richard Clarke from testifying? Is that why his book was in "security review" at the White House for...
Hashim Taqi, the former KLA fuehrer "affectionately" known as Snake, has laid his cards on the table in a screed published (not surprisingly) by the London-based IWPR (a.k.a. Institute for War Propaganda Reporting). In it, Taqi claims his "Kosova" would be: "a...
He said it:Israel may be the Jewish state, but as American Jews, it is not our country. It belongs to us only insofar as we share a spiritual connection to it with Jews the world over. If you're planning to make aliyah in the near future, go ahead and make Israel your...
Thomas Schaller in the Gadflyer has been kind enough to put up a transcript of Richard Clarke's interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air program. Clarke distills his argument for why invading Iraq has increased the problem of terrorism into 3 major points. First of...
Last night, President Bush made his presentation at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner, where he made some pretty funny jokes about looking for WMDs in the Oval Office, showing pictures of Rumsfeld looking under carpets. Today, TV is full of...
Meanwhile, the Americans were working closely with Spanish diplomats at the UN to push the Security Council resolution in words which suited Madrid. America’s permanent representative to the UN, John Negroponte told reporters that the Bush administration was satisfied...
Here's an interesting new twist in the ongoing Successful Liberation of Iraq. .....the director general of the Northern Iraqi Oil Co said an explosion set an oil well ablaze in northern Iraq. "The explosion occurred at 3:30 pm (1230 GMT) because of an explosive charge...
Proving once again that the Bushies are totally disconnected from reality and have no clue how their actions affect people around the world, Bush offers a tasteless and crude presentation in a tin-eared effort to suck up to the American media:Bush put on a slide show,...
From Reason's other Young comes another courageous defense of the Bush administration: Iraq always was essential to the anti-terrorism battle precisely because victory there was regarded as necessary to transform societies from where terrorists, spawned by suffocating...
