Tag: Iraq

Few countries have suffered as much in recent years and Iraqis of all faiths and ethnicities deserve not just freedom from the horrific violence that has become far too normal there.

Clueless is not a word Americans ordinarily apply to themselves as a country, a people, or a government. Yet how applicable it is.

"What good would come from destabilizing Iran? What would America get out of that?”

This slaughter has already lasted nearly 16 years. It will not cease until the United States is exhausted and withdraws its forces from the region.

"We attack them not for what they do but because we see them as being different from us. We must eradicate them to save ourselves."

Fifteen years after the calamitous invasion of Iraq, those who precipitated the war still walk free.

Does unrealistic war experience lead to Trump's advisor's overconfidence?

Bad as things are right now, experience tells us – or at least our military commanders swear to it – that they’ll get better sooner or later.

The U.S. needs to learn the art of diplomacy instead of spending a lot of time constantly demonizing and threatening other countries.

ISIS is on the decline, but the catastrophic political divisions in Iraq and Syria that gave rise to it are no closer to being mended.