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How the militarization of politics continues to destabilize Iraq decades after the U.S.-led invasion.
Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.
Any story of war is a story of elites preying on the weak, the gullible, the marginal, the poor.
History shows that forcing rulers from power rarely works. Even apparently successful regime changes often leads to bitter civil war.
On one of those early days of the war, Mu’min and his father drove to the airport to take food to his uncle, a soldier in the Republican Guard. They found him shot to death.
The war as it has evolved badly serves U.S. interests. A well-planned disengagement will serve them much better by reducing military, economic, and political costs.
A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.
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