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Pattern Seen in Alleged Chemical Arms Use in Syria
(BEIRUT) — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam...
10 Years After the Fall of Baghdad: A Cautionary Tale
TIME International Editor Bobby Ghosh talks about witnessing a dangerous misstep at Saddam's Presidentail Palace and how it foreshadowed things to come.
Viewpoint: North Korea’s Gaddafi Nightmare
Pyongyang and Kim Jong Un may be acting up because they believe they know the lessons of giving up weapons of mass destruction
Saddam Would Have Survived the Arab Spring
Iraq has not yet embraced the modern cult of the opinion poll. Voter research is unheard of, market research is rare, and surveys of national attitudes tend to...
What Bush Got Right On Iraq–And What Obama Can Learn From It
Before pulling the trigger on Iran, the U.S. should review how Bush nearly drove Saddam Hussein from power without an invasion
What Iraqis Remember About the U.S. Invasion
The ferocity of the American attack in 2003 took many Iraqis by surprise. Across the country, regime propaganda and media blackouts had made it difficult for...
Iraq: Ten Years After
The U.S. invaded Iraq 10 years ago Tuesday. It was almost déjà war: the nation had done pretty much the same thing 12 years before, but the goal that time was...
Bombings in Iraq Kill 65 a Decade After Invasion
(BAGHDAD) — Insurgents sent a bloody message on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, carrying out a wave of bombings across the country...
Saddam’s Specter Lives on in Iraqi Landmarks
(BAGHDAD) — The soaring half domes of the Martyr Monument stand out against the drabness of eastern Baghdad, not far from where Saddam Hussein's feared eldest...
What Bush Got Right on Iraq — and What Obama Can Learn from It
When George W. Bush became President in January 2001, American policy towards Iraq was in free fall and the United Nations sanctions against Saddam’s regime, in...
Bizarre New Link to Saddam Hussein in French Alps Massacre Mystery
The macabre shooting of a BritishIraqi family in the French Alps in September has now developed a further layer of intrigue Reports have emerged that one of the...
Iraq: How the CIA Says It Blew It On Saddam’s WMD
Now that we’re out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how come it was bamboozled about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The FOIA ferrets over at the...
Persian Gulf Party Time!
The Air Force wants to toss a Halloween party for some 200 folks in Kuwait – to “help bring a bit of Americana and a fun event to our men and women stationed far...
Obama’s ‘Pottery Barn’ Strategy
“You break it, you own it.” Colin Powell never called it the “Pottery Barn rule,” not least because Pottery Barn doesn’t have such a rule, but he did use the...
Obama’s Expanding Clandestine War
On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War – as hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops streamed toward Iraq-occupied Kuwait – a U.S. Army officer remarked how much easier all...
Inside Saddam Hussein and his Ba’th Party
Baghdad-born Joseph Sassoon has peeked into the heart and soul of the late Saddam Hussein and his Ba’th party, thanks to the millions of documents, audiotapes...
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The average number of daily combat missions the B-1 bomber has flown since its first such mission on December 17, 1998. That day it lifted off from Oman to bomb...
Remembering Anthony Shadid: The Best of Our Breed
I know how chefs feel about Ferran Adria, musicians about Bruce Springsteen, economists about Amartya Sen. I felt that way about Anthony Shadid: total and utter...
Why Syrians Fight, and Why Their Civil War May be a Long One
The reason that there’s no plausible end-game in Syria anytime soon — and that thousands more Syrians may be fated to die before the conflict is ended — is that...
