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Nothing but a battle lost, said Wellington of Waterloo, can be half so melancholy as a battle won. And so it is as the war in Iraq turns into a fight for peace and a nation's soul. The conflict may be over, but the combat hasn't stopped. Markets...
At the sight of the U.S. forces, worshippers rose and formed a wall to block them. The Marines did not understand Arabic, but they did not need to: the angry shouting made it clear that they were not welcome. A staff sergeant tried to calm the crowd, telling demonstrators, who...
News of the high-level military insubordination has been kept out of the media, but was confirmed to Time by an independent source. Yet the kingdom's newspapers, beneficiaries in recent years of the Saudi version of glasnost, have been given the freedom to attack the U.S. for its role...
The first sign came on April 10, not yet 24 hours after the U.S. Marines helped pull down Saddam's statue in Firdos Square in Baghdad. At the Mosque of Ali in Najaf, a gang murdered Sheikh Abdul Majid al-Khoei, the son of the late Grand Ayatullah Abolkassem al...
For the U.S., the worrisome precedent right now is not Iran, but Lebanon. In 1982, President Reagan dispatched U.S. Marines to Beirut as peacekeepers. He also sent Secretary of State George Shultz there on a nation-building mission. But Lebanon's Shiites proved to be an obstacle that turned Reagan...