Two Visions
Writing in the WSJ yesterday, Max Boot bewails our president’s insufficient engagement with the Iraqi government on the status of US forces remaining in theater after the 2011 draw-down deadline...
View ArticleLast Ones Out
The final 20,000 US soldiers will leave Iraq late next month. They go wondering whether they will be treated to some sort of spectacular attack, and whether any of it will have made a difference....
View ArticleActa, Non Verba
President Obama said all the right words during Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki’s visit to the White House this week: On Monday, the Obama administration announced plans to sell an additional 18 F-16...
View ArticleCase the Colors
Lion 6 hauls down the battle flag in Iraq: After nearly nine years of war, tens of thousands of casualties—including 4,500 dead—and more than $800 billion spent, the U.S. military on Thursday formally...
View ArticleOverly Sensitive
Ali Musa Daqduq is a Lebanese national and Hezbollah agent responsible for the 2007 kidnapping and murder of five American servicemen in Iraq. He’s been a prisoner there since early 2008, held in US...
View ArticleReverting to Form
Many wondered what the Iraqis would do with the functioning, if sputtering democracy that was left to them after American troops completed their withdrawal. It didn’t take long to find out that, in...
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