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...interview component, it took three tries to establish a good connection via satellite phone. Iraq??s first democratic elections would be held shortly, and the military stood on edge as officials predicted that horrific violence would soon erupt...
...from this mess is if both Congress and Bush stop their game of veiled threats and casting aspersions. Bush should change his policy; the Democrats should cut out the timetable. Furthermore, the Democrats’ spending bill is chock full of pork spending utterly unrelated to the situation in Iraq??$22 billion worth. Attaching such riders drastically weakens their claim to the moral high ground, and negates their claims to be acting on the behalf of the best interests of all Americans. Politics seems to have supplanted reason on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. We hope that both...
...war—exert most of their energy explaining themselves. As they try to prove that they understand the complexities of Iraq and care about the continuing tragedy, mawkish sentimentality and ham-fisted didacticism join forces to drain the project of all dramatic coherence. After curfew in Samarra, in Iraq??s volatile Sunni triangle, two Iraqi teenagers approach an American checkpoint. Unarmed and submissive, the teenagers reflexively put up their hands—and the Americans respond by throwing the both off the bridge. One drowns. It’s a shocking incident, and the film sets...
...stop the civil war in Baghdad.” Despite the fact that most of the assembled scholars strongly backed Galbraith’s comments, one Iraqi woman took issue with his prediction that Iraq would fracture along ethnic lines. She said that the fault for Iraq??s divisions lies with politicians who are dividing people for their own ends, and that the populace is less divided than Galbraith claimed. “We are all Iraqi,” she added. But an Iraqi Kurd said that he supports autonomy from the Baghdad government for the Kurd...
...United States should have used this policy from the start of our present conflict, but Shapiro also puts forth a series of open solutions for the future that go beyond such common talking points as “better international relations” and “withdrawal from Iraq?? to include a complete refocusing of American foreign policy. Much of Shapiro’s argument for containment is based on the shortcomings and fallacies inherent in the Bush Doctrine, which he describes as “the Monroe Doctrine on crack.” His systematic argument...