The neo-conservatives, many of whom are Jewish, are a little concerned that history will judge them as racists who aimed to destroy the Middle East by military means. They should be worried.
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Saddam would be proud
A beautiful sign of “democratic” Iraq: U.S. forces in Iraq have detained 10,000 prisoners without evidence of their wrongdoing, a U.S. detention centers in Iraq commander said on Monday.
The policy on Israel
My following article is published in Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper: During this year’s US presidential campaign, both Republican nominee John McCain and Democratic contender Barack Obama expressed unwavering support for Israel. It was the only country in the world that required constant loyalty tests. Obama told the leading Zionist lobby, AIPAC, that he would…
The re-building continues
Ancient treasures stolen from museums in the anarchic aftermath of the United States-led invasion of Iraq five years ago have been found in Basra, in one of the biggest recoveries of the loot, The Independent can reveal.
The Bush fantasy world
Scott Ritter, The Guardian, December 16: It would be very difficult for anyone to articulate that life today is better in Baghdad, Mosul, Basra or any non-Kurdish city than it was under Saddam. Ask the average Iraqi adult female if she is better off today than she was under Saddam, and outside of a few…
How should we feel about Obama?
The recently released Verso book, A Time to Speak Out, in which I contribute a chapter about progressive Jewish thought, has just launched a blog. My first post is the following: As one of the contributors to this important new book, currently in Sydney, Australia, the issue of Jewish identity in the 21st century is…
How to ruin a nation over and over again
An unpublished 513-page federal history of the American-led reconstruction of Iraq depicts an effort crippled before the invasion by Pentagon planners who were hostile to the idea of rebuilding a foreign country, and then molded into a $100 billion failure by bureaucratic turf wars, spiraling violence and ignorance of the basic elements of Iraqi society…
The West has no memory
A British diplomat in Baghdad: We are in the thick of violent agitation and we feel anxious”¦ the underlying thought is out with the infidel. The country between Diwaniyah and Samawah is abandoned to disorder. We haven’t troops enough to tackle it at present. There’s no getting out of the conclusion that we have made…
Working for the enemy
Wikileaks releases yet another essential document from the “war on terror.” The Human Terrain Team Handbook is used by the US military to allegedly intergrate into various foreign lands: According to the handbook, HTTs [Human Terrain Teams] are 5-9 person intelligence teams made up of serving military, contractors and “academicians”. The teams are designed to…
Read the fine print
Is the recent security agreement between the US and Iraq a “total defeat” for Washington?