Category: No More Tyrants
Snuggling Tyrants for Stability
The Iraq Study Group has finally released its report and here is it what it has found. Iraq is a mess and we should talk to its neighbors to get them to help. Conditions in Iraq are “grave and deteriorating,” with the prospect that a “slide toward chaos” could topple the U.S.-backed government and trigger [...]
The Story Behind the Anonymous Pulitzer
This is a photo taken by Iranian photojournalist Jahangir Razmi. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980, the first Pulitzer Prize ever won by an “anonymous” contribution. No one outside a close circle of people knew that Razmi took the photo because, if it became known, he would have been tortured and killed. Only recently [...]
Meet the New Strategy. Same as the Old Strategy.
After all the hullabaloo and the practiced leaks to the New York Times the Iraq Study Group’s big, show-stopping recommendation is… …stay the course. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend withdrawing nearly all U.S. combat units from Iraq by early 2008 while leaving behind troops to train, advise and support the Iraqis, setting [...]
Just in at the UN: Darfur is “Horrible”
Is the UN finally going to get tough on those responsible for the genocide in Darfur? Atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are occurring daily at a “horrific” level, the top U.N. human rights official said yesterday, adding that countries in the region were “in denial” about the situation. The U.N. high commissioner for [...]
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