Peace in the Middle East, Bush Family-Style. The UN Security Council vetoed the invasion of Iraq and thus the UN did not support it, yet it realized its mandate and went into Iraq anyway hoping to help restore order… Actually, the UN already had an envoy and an...
I’m going to start calling this new war “DESSERT STORM”. 🙂 I frankly find the whole “Operation Iraqi Freedom” moniker insulting to my intelligence. I think that this war will quickly become one between The West and The Arabs. That’s...
The New York Times March 23, 2003 The Philosopher of Islamic Terror By PAUL BERMAN In the days after Sept. 11, 2001, many people anticipated a quick and satisfying American victory over Al Qaeda. The terrorist army was thought to be no bigger than a pirate ship, and...
——- http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/ 0,7792,861126,00.html Cairo dispatch: The papers that cried wolf Brian Whitaker looks at how the American media are softening up public attitudes to war with Iraq Monday December 16, 2002 Last week...
US Foreign Policy is solidifying the position of conservative regimes in the Middle East by giving the people of these worlds a common enemy. Theocracies and dictatorships form the fulcrum of resistance against perceived (and real) Western Imperialism, and...
