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| IA Forum speaks with Mr. Karim Pakzad (Institute for International and Strategic Relation, Paris, France) about the Iraqi elections. By Valentine Pasquesoone. (04/05/2010) |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Dr. Christopher Preble, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, about Iraq and U.S. foreign policy issues. (IA-Forum, 08/29/2008) |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Brian Katulis, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, about U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq. (IA-Forum, 06/23/2008) |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Dr. Michael Scheuer about his new book, "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq", terrorism, and the Middle East. (IA-Forum, 03/21/2008) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Assist. Prof. Colin Kahl about how the US is fighting the war in Iraq and improvements in the way it fights. By Stefan Daniels. (IA-Forum, 12/5/2006) |
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| Intenational Affairs Forum Interview: Peter Beinart and Scott McConnell |
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| Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic and Scott McConnell, current editor of The American Conservative, discuss questions about the UN and US foreign policy. By Jason Miks. (IA-Forum, 11/13/2006 and 11/18/2006) |
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| International Affairs Forum Interview: Dr. Joshua Muravchik |
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| IA-Forum speaks with American Enterprise Resident Scholar Joshua Muravchik and author of The Future of the United Nations: Understanding the Past to Chart a Way Forward, Covering the Intifada and Heaven on Earth. By Jens F. Laurson. (4/20/2006) |
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| Iraq: The Middle East Pivot |
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| Report on lecture by former Ambassador Edward Gnehm at George Washington University. By Michael Loeb. (IA-Forum, 3/6/2006) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Professor Philippe Sands QC |
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| IA-Forum speaks with Professor Philippe Sands QC about international law issues and his latest book, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (Viking). By Dimitri Neos and Anna Larnefeldt. (IA-Forum, 1/20/2006) |
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| Report from Washington DC: John McCain Address at American Enterprise Institute |
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| Report on Sen. John McCain's address about Iraq, given at the American Enterprise Institute. By Jens Laurson. (IA-Forum, 11/9/2005) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Dr. Leon Hadar |
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| IA Forum speaks with Dr. Leon Hadar, author of Sandstorm, about U.S. involvement in the Middle East. (IA-Forum, 10/13/2005 ) |
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| IA-Forum Interviews: Dr. Al Shaky, Zainab Al-Suwaij, and Mary Larkin |
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| IA-Forum discusses the Iraq constitution and Iraqi women's rights with Iraqi Minister of State for Women’s Affairs Dr. Azhar Abdul Karim Al Shakly, Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director of the American Islamic Congress and Mary Larkin, Director of International Programs at Street Law, Inc. By Kevin DeCorla-Souza. (IA-Forum, 7/20/2005) |
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| “Waiting for Godot” Culture and Conflict in Iraq |
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| Student paper that examines intercultural dynamics in the Iraq conflict. By Nate Haken. (7/15/2005) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Mr. Paul Hughes |
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| International Affairs Forum speaks about Iraq border issues with Mr. Paul Hughes, the Iraq program officer in the Peace and Stability Operations Program for the US Institute for Peace. Mr. Hughes is also the Army's senior military fellow to the Institute for National Security Studies of the National Defense University. By Winston Harris. (7/12/2005) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Mr. John Pike |
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| International Affairs Forum speaks with Mr. John Pike, one of the world's leading experts on defense, space and intelligence policy, and Director of GlobalSecurity.org. By Winston Harris (IA-Forum, 6/22/2005) |
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| Dr. Abdul Aziz Said, founder of the Center for Global Peace, founder and director of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division, Chair of Islamic Peace, and senior professor at American University discusses issues in Iraq. By Anita Joshi. (IA-Forum, 11/16/2004) |
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| IA-Forum Roundtable Interview: Christopher Preble |
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| Christopher Preble (Cato Institute) talks to IA-Forum in the second of our roundtable interview series on Iraq. By Jens Laurson and Dimitri Neos. (IA-Forum, 10/20/2004) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: Ambassador Marc Ginsberg |
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| Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco, chair of the Alliance for American Leadership, and Foreign Affairs Analyst for Fox News Channel talks to IA-Forum about U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq. By Dimitri Neos and Jasen Zubcevik. (IA-Forum, 9/29/2004) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: The Honorable Don Bonker |
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| Mr. Don Bonker, former U.S. Congressman (Chairman of the House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee), talks about Iraq, Trade and Globalization. By Jasen Zubcevik. (IA-Forum, 6/7/2004) |
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| IA-Forum Interview: The Honorable Donald Riegle Jr. |
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| Former U.S. Senator Don Riegle Jr. (Michigan, Republican and Democrat) talks frankly to IA-Forum about pressing current issues including Iraq and the upcoming U.S. elections. By Jasen Zubcevik. (IA-Forum, 5/14/2004) |
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| EDITORIALS |
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| Insider's view from Baghad about the struggle for Syria and its implications. ByLandon Shroder. (08/15/2012) |
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| Humanitarian Space in Iraq? |
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| Argues for increased international action to address the humanitarian crisis in Iraq. By S.R. Brophy. (IA-Forum, 03/11/2007) |
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| Iraqization - Not Democratization |
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| Analysis of the Iraq conflict and call to reinspect democratization policy efforts. By Alan Hootnick. (2/5/2007) |
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| Even the most idealistic of Iraq’s partisans can’t weigh the mountain of dead against the nation’s “messy freedom” and find solace. The President concedes that regional terror is up, Iran and Syria emboldened, and US leverage seems radically diminished. In light of this, "Plans for Victory" are hard to come by. By George A. Pieler and Jens F. Laurson. (IA-Forum, 01/14/2007) |
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| FEATURED ELSEWHERE
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| Analysis of oil reserve political effects in Iraq and potential tensions in the affected areas. By Seda Kirdar. (Tepav, 08/15/2012) |
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| The recent ban of more than 500 candidates from Iraq's upcoming elections is designed to cement the power of the country's Shiite Islamists aligned with Iran. Will this latest sectarian rupture sink any hopes for a stable Iraq? By Reidar Visser. (Foreign Affairs - 01/27/2010) |
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| Profiles the head of a special American task force in Iraq and explains the novel approach to warfare that he represents. By Ullrich Fichtner (Der Spiegel, 04/22/2009) |
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| Secretary of Defense asserts that the U.S. cannot modernize its conventional forces to deal with future near peer threats at the cost of disregarding the capabilities necessary to deal with the type of wars it is currently engaged in. The U.S. must synchronize its military and civilian efforts and build the capacity of allies and partner nations. By Robert Gates (Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2009) |
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| In today's fragile international political climate the structures in place to deal with nuclear non-proliferation have become complacent. An event of the magnitude of the 1968 Non-proliferation Treaty is needed to ensure that the threat from nuclear weapons remains contained (Yale Global Online 10/01/2008) |
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| CIA Director Michael Hayden says the agency is using military strikes to coax terrorists and insurgents into reacting in order to gather intelligence about how different groups respond. By Stephen Manning (Associated Press, 9/17/08) |
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| Details the similarities between American counter-insurgency techniques used in Iraq with those practiced by Isreal against Palestinian populations, particularly the use of barriers to separate different ethnic groups or to enclose and control population centres deemed a risk to security (Middle East Policy, Fall 2008, Subscription required $29.95) |
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| The situation in Iraq is improving. With the right strategy the United States will eventually be able to draw down troops without sacrificing stability. By Biddle, O'Hanlon & Pollack (Foreign Affairs, 09/13/2008) |
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| Report on three day peace conference between Iraqi factions. (AP, 04/28/2008) |
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| “The Exoneration” and other written expositions by Al Qaida’s number 2 may be a signal that the organization is trying to salvage its diminishing public support by tying its operations and activities to popular Muslim concerns. By the International Research Center (Transnational Security Issues Report, 4/21/08) |
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| Investigative report about the significance of oil in starting the Iraq War. By Steven Mufson. (Washington Post, 03/16/2008) |
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| The author highlights the latest progress made in Iraq as discussed in the recent testimonies by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker. However, the author also notes the numerous challenges that remain in the war-torn state. By Michael Eisenstadt. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 9/13/2007) |
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| The author discusses the relative stability and progress made in the Anbar Province and gauges the viability of this model succeeding in other parts of Iraq. By Gordon Lubold. (Christian Science Monitor, 9/5/2007) |
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| The author defends President Bush’s comparison of Vietnam to Iraq to demonstrate the dangerous effects of pulling American troops out of conflict zones too quickly. By Peter W. Rodman. (Brookings Institution, 8/23/2007) |
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| The author explains Iran’s goals in Iraq, details the Islamic Republic’s long history of political and military support for various groups within the Iraqi state, and finally gives several recommendations to the US government on how to curb this Iranian influence. By James Phillips. (Heritage Foundation, 4/30/2007) |
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| The authors discuss the recent proposal to begin a major pullout of US troops from Iraq and argue that this strategy would have catastrophic consequences for future stability and progress in Iraq, containing the expansion of Iran, protecting US interests in the region, and averting a humanitarian disaster in Iraq. By James Jay Carafano and James Phillips. (Heritage Foundation, 7/17/2007) |
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| The author describes the progress made by Shiite-led democratic forces, the need to support President Bush’s troop surge, and the dangers involved in a precipitous withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. By Reuel Marc Gerecht. (American Enterprise Institute, 4/23/2007) |
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| The author confronts a growing problem for America's European allies: reconciling domestic opinion with unpopular foreign policy. By Robert Marquand (Christian Science Monitor, 2/23/2007). |
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| Detailing a gradual disengagement plan for Iraq, post troop surge. By Steven N. Simon (Council on Foreign Relations, 02/09/2007) |
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| The author argues that US forces must adopt a bottom-up approach to tactical innovation in order to keep pace with the rapidly changing tactics of modern insurgents. By Guy Ben-Ari and Shawn Brimley. (World Politics Watch, 02/20/07) |
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| Author says the Iraq Study Group’s advice to increase the number of advisers while decreasing the number of combatants will lead to disaster. By Andrew Exum. (New York Times, 12/10/2006) |
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| To stop the slide to civil war in Iraq, international mediators must negotiate directly with the Sunni insurgency that has been seeking talks with the US for three years; offer amnesty; roll back de-Baathification and a new bargain on oil and federalism; renounce permanent military bases; and withdraw militarily from Iraq over the next few years. By Larry Diamond. (New York Times, 12/10/2006) |
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| While many scholars and academics have paid
credence to the rise in global jihad following the Iraq War, here the
author draws two credible points: top American policymakers have
little appreciation for the effect the war has had in radicalizing
Muslim youth, and an internal rift has newly emerged between the
jihadists of the 1980’s and their current predecessors. By Fawaz A.
Gerges (Y |
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| The author explains how the death sentence of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein will serve to strengthen the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. By Jeffrey White. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 11/6/2006) |
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| The authors discuss the current status of Iraq in terms of economics, politics, security, education, and infrastructure. By Nina Kamp and Michael E. O'Hanlon.
(Brookings Institution, 10/1/2006) |
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| U.S. policy in Iraq—and elsewhere around the world—ought to be based on reality. Iraq is already a partitioned country. Recognizing that allows us to craft a strategy to salvage success. by Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (The National Interest, 9/12/2006) |
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| The author writes that the Bush Administration is using coalition warfare in Iraq not to share the costs of waging war, but to establish political legitimacy for its foreign policy. By Patricia Weitsman. (New York Times, 8/31/2006) |
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| The Pentagon is very forthright about casualty lists for Iraq. However, as the authors point out, deaths alone don't indicate the risk for an individual serving in Iraq. By Samuel Preston and Emily Buzzell. (Washington Post, 8/26/2006) |
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| The author says defeating an insurgency requires more than simply killing insurgents, but rather winning the "hearts and minds" of the population, an essential strategy for prying the population away from control by a ruthless enemy. By Terence J. Daly. (New York Times, 8/21/2006) |
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| Iraq's ambassador to the US pleads his case for America to stay the course in Iraq. By Samir Sumaida'ie. (Washington Post, 8/21/2006) |
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| The authors argue for three revisions to a counterinsurgency manual recently released by the Pentagon to increase effectiveness in fighting the war in Iraq. By Richard H. Shultz Jr. and Andrea J. Dew. (New York Times, 8/7/2006) |
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| The state of the U.S. military; projecting power and how President Bush's goal of reasserting American dominance in the Middle East has failed. By Michael Hirsh (Newsweek, 31/07/2006). |
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| Video of book event at New America Foundation featuring Tom Rick, author of Fiasco, former State Department Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson in an important examination of the challenges faced in Iraq and potential solutions to address strategic problems within the region. (New America Foundation, 7/28/2006) |
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| The author writes that while the US mission in Iraq is to support a national unity government representing all of Iraq's communities, the Iraqi government today has little control over these disparate groups, each ruled by semi-autonomous groups with their own militias. By Peter W. Galbraith. (New York Times, 7/25/2006) |
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| Author looks at the differing characteristics of civil wars from country to country and says it is often difficult to determine when they begin and when they end. By Nicholas Sambinis. (New York Times, 7/23/2006) |
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| The author writes that the US military advisors assigned to every battalion of the new Iraqi army are critical to the success of the US war effort, but criticizes the US for sending too few to do the job and creating disincentives that ensure the worst, not the best, US officers get assigned. By Andrew F. Krepinevich. (New York Times, 7/11/2006) |
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| The role of tribal culture in Iraq and how it has quelled conflict in some areas. By Sabrina Tavernise and Qais Mizher (The New York Times, 06/10/06). |
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| The author describes Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s plan to end political violence in Iraq and also suggests other elements that should be included in the reconciliation process. By James Phillips. (Heritage Foundation, 6/28/2006) |
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| The author suggests how the US should proceed in Iraq following the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. By James Jay Carafano. (Heritage Foundation, 6/12/2006) |
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| The author discusses how the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi will affect al-Qaeda in Iraq and the insurgency. By Jeffrey White. (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 6/8/2006) |
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| The author describes a complex and inefficient Iraqi political system that is in desperate need of reform. By Nibras Kazimi. (Hudson Institute, 6/7/2006) |
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| The author argues that the current US policies in Iraq will lead to continued violence, national disunity, and eventual civil war. By Thomas X. Hammes. (International Herald Tribune, 6/1/2006) |
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| The author argues that in order to secure and stabilize the Iraqi capital, the US needs to deploy more troops and security forces. By Max Boot. (Council on Foreign Relations, 5/24/2006). |
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| The author argues that the trial of former President Saddam Hussein has failed in aiding the process of healing and reconstruction in Iraq. Rather, it has merely served to reemphasize sectarian divisions within the country and highlight resentment throughout the Arab world of the American presence in Iraq. By Shibley Telhami. (Brookings Institution, 5/11/2006) |
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| Kerry writes that the US must get tough with Iraq's leaders, demanding that they form a government by May 15 or face immediate US troop withdrawal. By John F. Kerry. (New York Times, 4/5/2006) |
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| The author writes that coalition forces fighting the insurgency in Iraq must be vigilant about not attacking civilians who may be caught in the crossfire. By A.C. Grayling. (New York Times, 3/27/2006) |
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| Despite the blunders of the Bush administration in carrying it out, the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do. By Fareed Zakaria. (Washington Post, 3/22/2006) |
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| Author says Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is incompetent to lead the US armed forces. By Paul D. Eaton. (New York Times, 3/19/2006) |
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| The war in Iraq is nearing its third anniversary and there is disagreement in the military's echelons about the successes there. By Nina Kamp, Michael O'Hanlon, and Amy Unikewicz. (New York Times, 3/19/2006) |
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| The article suggests that President Bush would be
well-served to spend the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War considering his foreign policy legacy as well as that there is an increasingly clear distinction between the work of Condoleezza Rice and the ideas of Vice President Cheney and his team. By Steven Clemons (Daily Yomiuri Online, 03/18/2006) |
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| ROUND TABLE FORUM |
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| Global commentary and discussion about the Iraq Study Report. (12/13/2006) |
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