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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 Elections Negroponte Optimistic

Iraq Elections: Negroponte Optimistic; Shiites Enthusiastic for Reasons that would not Please Negroponte The Chicago Tribune’s Liz Sly is back in Baghdad and has two […]

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5 Us Troops Killed 18 Wounded I Take

5 US Troops Killed, 18 Wounded I take today’s New York Times/ AP report on Iraq as a very bad sign. For one thing, it […]

Juan Cole

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Fallujah Report And

The Fallujah Report and the Liberal/Conservative Divide The “Fallujah Report” prepared by the Marines concerning their enemies in the most recent big campaign is now […]

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Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish Writer

Kurdish Nationalism Kurdish writer Sabah Salih has an interesting piece on the way the image of the Kurds has changed among European leftists from that […]

Juan Cole

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Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave Of Violence In Iraq 5 Us

Fresh Wave of Violence in Iraq 5 US troops Killed The relentless guerrilla war continued apace in Iraq on Sunday. AFP reported that guerrillas killed […]

Juan Cole

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Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman In New York Review Of

Henry Siegman in the New York Review of Books Amid the unwarranted outbreak of optimism about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the wake of Yasser Arafat’s […]

Juan Cole

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Shock Of Week Liberals In Liberal Arts

Shock of the Week: Liberals in Liberal Arts George Will’s column this week is unusually unreflective. I don’t often agree with Will, but he is […]

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Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections In Iraq Will Be Held On

Elections in Iraq will be Held on Schedule, But with What Result? Or, how Khatami and Krauthammer are Both Wrong At least 12 persons died […]

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Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al Hayat On

Supporting Nawal Saadawi Al-Hayat on Saturday ran an attack from a Muslim fundamentalist point of view on Egyptian novelist Nawal Saadawi. She recently argued that […]

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