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...between the Hakim and Sadr families. That struggle could easily turn very lethal. Indeed, in recent days there have been battles between the Sadr and Hakim forces in Karbala and Basra. The next crucial U.S. military decision is, How deeply do we get involved in this fight? Do we side with the Hakims, who are more élite and less popular than the Sadrists? Do we continue what we are doing now--sporadic raids targeting the special groups and police actions aimed at the street gangs in Baghdad? Do we expand our anti-Sadr actions into the southern third...
That is a decision for a President to make, but apparently not this President. George W. Bush has abdicated his control over the military mission and seems boggled by the political side of the Iraqi equation. He has lashed himself to the inept, unrepresentative government of Nouri al-Maliki but seems powerless to influence that government's actions. Bush's Iraq poster boys, General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, are doing a wonderful job but lack the rank to make strategic regional policy. The Administration was so inept in dealing with Turkey that its designated mediator, retired General Joseph...
...Other works planned for this season have close Harvard ties. On the programs for the November and March concerts are “Overture to The Great Gatsby,” composed by John H. Harbison ’60, and “Dances from West Side Story,” by Leonard Bernstein ’39. Gustav Holst, whose “The Planets Suite” will be paired with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony tomorrow night, was a member of Harvard’s faculty and also conducted the Sodality’s second...
...discussion at the Phillips Brooks House focused on the community benefits that Harvard will provide and the lack of student voice in the planning process. The first phase of Harvard’s half-century-long campus expansion currently includes the relocation of the Quad dorms to the Allston side of the river. For some students in attendance, the lack of student voice in the process was problematic. “The College has yet to start a dialogue,” said Jeffrey Kwong ’09, the Undergraduate Council’s liaison for Cambridge and Allston...
...difficult to argue with those reduce intellectual discourse of complicated issues within Islam to mere sensationalist phrases about the religion itself. No credible academic—on either side of the aisle—would so completely ignore socio-political, historic, and economic issues that are fundamentally entrenched in the idea of Islamo-fascism...