Kurdistan regional elections mark a step forward for Iraq’s stability
Elections in the Kurdistan region are important because they provide a beacon of democracy for the region.
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Report: Dutch Technology May Have Helped Advance Iran’s Weapons Program
Iran, along with Syria and Pakistan, may have obtained technology that can be applied to military programs that can cause widespread destruction, intelligence services in the Netherlands said lat...
Op-eds
The Kurdish test
In a just world, the Kurds would have a state of their own. Their culture is ancient. They speak a distinctive language. They have a homeland, Kurdistan, ruled for centuries by Arabs, Turks and P...
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We can’t punish Syria and ignore Iran: Assad’s allies have been complicit in his crimes
The Iranian regime’s role in enabling Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s chemical attacks on civilians last week has sadly been ignored, in part because of Tehran’s accurate asserti...
Op-eds
The sorrow and the pity in Syria
Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...
Op-eds
Nobel Peace Charade
Surely the Norwegian Nobel Committee meant well in awarding this year’s Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). But for all the courage of OPCW inspe...
Op-eds
Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire
The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...
Op-eds
Holding Assad Accountable
Co-authored by Gregory D. Koblentz The United States and possibly allies are preparing to launch military strikes against Syria in response to Syrian president Bashar al-As...
Op-eds
Who Is in Charge of Iran’s Syria Policy?
"A government which bombards its own population with chemical weapons must face the harsh consequences of it, just like Saddam [Hussein] who brought eternal shame upon himself by bombing Halabja...
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Assad Must Pay
It’s not just President Obama’s “red line” that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has crossed. Civilized people have long set limits on armed conflicts. Using chemical weapons...
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America’s Inexcusable Inaction
In Syria, we are letting Assad slaughter at will
Op-eds
Taking Damascus, One, Two, Three
Although Bashar al-Assad could still kill off the revolt against his tyranny, it seems increasingly unlikely. The rebellion today is far larger—geographically and numerically—than the...
Op-eds
Winning the Peace: America is Not on the Road to Victory Yet
On a conventional battlefield, America is second to none. Slowly and painfully, we also are mastering the skills necessary to win a low-intensity but high-anxiety war against a shadow army of ins...
Op-eds
Holy War and Anti War: An Axis against Nature
The oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West. The jumble of causes thrown together is mind-bendin...
Op-eds
The ‘Second Israel’
Halabja, Iraq - Twenty-two years ago, in this dusty town hard up against the mountainous border with Iran, Saddam Hussein's military used chemical weapons to murder 5,000 Kurdish men, women...
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Come Meet with Us, Cindy Sheehan
Come Meet with Us, Cindy Sheehan FDD Ad in Waco Tribune-Herald Extends Invitation to Meet with Iraqi Freedom Fighters, Tor...
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Dear Cindy; An Open Letter to the Mother of a Fallen Hero
Dear Cindy Sheehan: I know you want to talk to President Bush about the conflict in Iraq, the war in which your son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, was tragically killed. I also know that whi...
Op-eds
The War ‘Against’ Iraq
"Al harb ala al Iraq." This slogan, which means "The War on Iraq," appears with each story on the Iraq conflict on al-Jazeera television and its young media counterparts in the Arab worl...
Op-eds
Saudi Mischief in Fallujah
By Stephen Schwartz In recent weeks, most Western media have reported the continuing attacks on U.S. troops in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, as tenacious resistance by defeated Baathists, a...