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The wrong question about the war in Iran
Donald Trump

The wrong question about the war in Iran

Yakov M. Rabkin

the more important issue is what benefit Israel, the war’s proponent and initiator, stands to gain

On Int’l Women’s Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

On Int’l Women’s Day, the US needs an Equal Rights Amendment

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Iran as a new Forever War

Iran as a new Forever War

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Iraq News Roundup Ash Sharq Al Awsat

Iraq News Roundup Ash-Sharq al-Awsat does a report on Fallujah in which it alleges that of the residents who have returned after the US assault, […]

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Competent Intelligence Urged By

Competent Intelligence Urged By

Competent Intelligence Urged by Rumsfeld Ironies of Iraq today: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is afraid that the new Shiite religious government in Iraq will […]

Juan Cole

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Sharon Defies Bush Ap Headline Gets It

Sharon Defies Bush Ap Headline Gets It

Sharon Defies Bush The AP headline gets it right: Sharon dismisses Bush Warning on Settlement Expansion. I would have called it “large-scale land theft” rather […]

Juan Cole

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What Muslims Think Is Really Happening

What Muslims Think Is Really Happening

What the Muslims think is Really Happening in Jerusalem The far-right Israeli extremists who demonstrated in Jerusalem were not just protesting the plan to remove […]

Juan Cole

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Life Imprisonment For Saddam Are

Life Imprisonment For Saddam Are

Life Imprisonment for Saddam? Are the guerrillas fighting in Iraq demanding that Saddam not be executed as one of their conditions for coming in from […]

Juan Cole

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Us Millions In Iraq Wasted I Saw Lewis

Us Millions In Iraq Wasted I Saw Lewis

US Millions in Iraq Wasted I saw Lewis Black, the comedian, in Detroit last month. Lewis does angry humor. But at one point he went […]

Juan Cole

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Allawi Resigns Joins New Government

Allawi Resigns Joins New Government

Allawi resigns, Joins New Government Iyad Allawi has consented to join the new Iraqi government. He is demanding 4 of 31 cabinet posts for his […]

Juan Cole

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Of Bents And Teaching Daniel Drezner

Of Bents And Teaching Daniel Drezner

Of Bents and Teaching Daniel Drezner maintains that there are virtually no political science courses that deal with the Arab-Israeli conflict in the United States […]

Juan Cole

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Up To 300000 Demonstrate In Baghdad

Up To 300000 Demonstrate In Baghdad

Up to 300,000 Demonstrate in Baghdad Edmund Sanders reports that the crowds in downtown Baghdad protesting the US troop presence in the country may have […]

Juan Cole

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