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...complete—establishing a more prosperous democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. At the very least, this country owes the people of Iraq a freer, more stable nation than they had under Saddam Hussein. Anything less would reduce U.S. credibility throughout the Arab world to a dangerous...
Fish, who led the drive at Harvard’s Divinity School to return a $2.5 million gift from the president of the United Arab Emirates, advised the students to document such incidents...
...neighbors think. As the U.S.'s pre-emptive war in Iraq has taught us to ask, What neighbors? The hell with them. Edward C. Pease Petersboro, Utah, U.S. Death in Darfur What is happening in Sudan is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple [Oct. 4]. The government-backed Janjaweed Arab militia is committing genocide against non-Arab Muslims. Is the world waiting for Darfur to degenerate into another Bosnia or Rwanda? I am surprised by the evasive tactics of the Bush Administration and its European counterparts. After its blunders in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. does not want to be seen...
...author rightly claims, to help stop the violence in Darfur and to alleviate the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of refugees. The Janjaweed and other groups perpetrating atrocities must be stopped, and the Sudanese government must be held accountable for its actions. But villainizing of the Arabic-speaking people of Darfur does an injustice to the Arab victims of the violence and conveys a thoroughly inaccurate picture of this tragic conflict...
...prodigy. Three years later, he left to study in the Iraqi city of Najaf, the prestigious 1,000-year-old home to some of Shi'ism's most prominent teachers of jurisprudence; he has lived there ever since. Najaf's schools were filled with as many Persians as Arabs. Sistani never lost his thick native accent and remains an Iranian citizen, which has made him a target of Arab rivals like al-Sadr who disparage his ethnicity...