Botched occupation or not, has the rise of ISIL, the disintegration of Syria and Libya, actually helped Israel (even if all this was somehow Likud's strategy)? Is Syria now really "contained" in the way the CLEAN BREAK report advocated? Does it make strategic sense, even for Likud, to surround Israel with failed states?
I have heard that the "Arab street" (which now includes Facebook and social media, as Juan Cole has shown so brilliantly) is nostalgic for Saddam, so awful have been the results of the US invasion of Iraq and the ensuing chaos. Does anyone have further evidence that this is the case? "Nostalgia for Iraq’s Saddam Hussein flowers on social media," http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article24782503.html.
Thanks for the reference to "U.S. Religious Figures Offer Abuse Apology on Arab TV," http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/11FAIT.html, I was not familiar with this powerful gesture. (By the way, my apology has been translated into Arabic and I have submitted it to "HuffPost Arabi" as it should, of course, appear in a language that all Iraqis read.) I'm heartened by your description of opposition by mainline Protestant churches to the invasion of Iraq. And, just the record, I myself am not a believer in Dante's religion, just his poetry.
Botched occupation or not, has the rise of ISIL, the disintegration of Syria and Libya, actually helped Israel (even if all this was somehow Likud's strategy)? Is Syria now really "contained" in the way the CLEAN BREAK report advocated? Does it make strategic sense, even for Likud, to surround Israel with failed states?
I have heard that the "Arab street" (which now includes Facebook and social media, as Juan Cole has shown so brilliantly) is nostalgic for Saddam, so awful have been the results of the US invasion of Iraq and the ensuing chaos. Does anyone have further evidence that this is the case? "Nostalgia for Iraq’s Saddam Hussein flowers on social media," http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article24782503.html.
Thanks for the reference to "U.S. Religious Figures Offer Abuse Apology on Arab TV," http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/11FAIT.html, I was not familiar with this powerful gesture. (By the way, my apology has been translated into Arabic and I have submitted it to "HuffPost Arabi" as it should, of course, appear in a language that all Iraqis read.) I'm heartened by your description of opposition by mainline Protestant churches to the invasion of Iraq. And, just the record, I myself am not a believer in Dante's religion, just his poetry.