On CNN just now, Fawaz Gerges, author of Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy, said that 90-95 percent of the insurgents in Iraq do not answer to Al Qaeda, but are homegrown.
Mike Berg is running for Congress in Delaware as the antiwar, Green candidate against the incumbent Republican. Berg calls for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq on the grounds that the U.S. is increasing suffering in the Middle East,…
In today’s Financial Times, Henry Siegman states that Israel is trying to annex large portions of the West Bank and thereby frustrate plans for a true Palestinian state. “The issue is not whether Hamas recognises Israel,” Siegman says. It is…
“By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, training ground, and operational base for jihadist terrorists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at. The tenuous prewar connection between the…
My friend Mim has submitted the following list of great spam pseudonyms: Peter Phoebe Wilma Gallegos Fran Patel Faustino Burkhart Marietta Molina Vergie Henry … and, last but not least, Stylianos Cuffie OK, now I can delete them all. This…
Ten days ago I praised Richard Engel’s beautiful and amazing story on NBC Nightly News about a Baghdad orphanage for girls whose parents had died because of the war we started. I was hardly alone. Last night Brian Williams said…
Today CBS News reports that Kimberly Dozier is headed home, talking “animatedly.” CBS has regularly covered the correspondent’s injury in Iraq, and the death of her two crew-members. I’m a little surprised by the silence surrounding anchor Bob Woodruff’s injuries…
BBC News last night featured an interview about Iran with a highly-presentable young specialist at Hopkins, Trita Parsi. The interview was startling to me for a word that Parsi used. Now that the neocon moment seems at last to be…