Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy » Foreign Affairs: Iraq War

Whither Iraq?

Steven D. Laib — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:47:11 +0000

No one knows what the future bodes for Iraq, despite Obama's pronouncements on the subject. Let's get it out in the open at the start. I am not one of those people who believed that invading Iraq was the correct response to the 9/11 attacks. Iraq wasn't a prime player in the attacks and [...]

Obama Changes Tune as Iraq War Ends for US

Jim Kouri — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:00:20 +0000

Critics have accused Obama of ending the war hastily to coincide with his re-election campaign. Many of them have warned that the pullout could embolden still-active insurgent fighters as well as Iraq's neighbor Iran.

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama addressed the impending end of the US mission in Iraq. "When the last U.S. troops in Iraq case their colors [...]

Biden’s Iraq Visit More Flash Than Substance, Say Critics

Jim Kouri — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:31:11 +0000

Biden's visit was more of a dog and pony show to quell suspicions that all is not well for Iraq's future as a democracy.

With U.S. military forces withdrawing from Iraq on schedule, Vice President Joe Biden visited the fledgling Democracy to tell the world that the United States and Iraq are beginning a [...]

Ron Paul’s Submissive Foreign Policy

Aaron Goldstein — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:48 +0000

But our policies definitely had an influence and you talk to the people who committed it and those individuals who would like to do us harm they say yes we didn’t like American bombs to be falling on our country, we don’t like the intervention we do in their nations so to deny this is [...]

Iranian, Iraqi Military Chiefs Cozy up as U.S. Prepares Pullout

Jim Kouri — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:47:37 +0000

A former U.S. police advisor now living in Israel wonders if the Iraq War will be remembered as a success or the beginning of another radical Islamic nation. Despite the Obama Administration's "rose-colored glasses" assessment of Iraq's future as a democratic haven in a sea of radical Islamist despots, political thugs and monarchs, Iraq appears open to befriending [...]

The Vanishing Little Star of Bethlehem: Christianity Under Attack in the Middle-East

Rabbi Dr. Daniel M. Zucker — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:23:35 +0000

Why are the same leaders who so passionately protect Muslim rights in America doing nothing for Christians who are dying in record numbers? Why has the church been virtually silent about the suffering of our brethren?”

News coming out of the Middle-East in the last few months has focused on two principal areas: [...]

Should Saddam Have Stayed in Power?

Aaron Goldstein — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:08:49 +0000

Considering the present situation in Iraq and the rest of the region, removing Saddam Hussein might not have been the best idea. I have given a great deal of thought to the War in Iraq since President Obama announced that all American troops would be withdrawn at the end of this year after he [...]

A Gift to Tehran

Siavosh Rajizadeh — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:12:34 +0000

If the despotic dictators of Libya and Syria want to quell the uprisings against them, they should follow the lead of Tehran. Call the opposition terrorists and get the U.S. State Department to label them Foreign Terrorist Organizations. It will work, and won't even matter how many people those governments are murdering.

Following [...]

Iran Regime Worried About Support for MEK

Joseph Omidvar — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:39:17 +0000

The US was wrong to label the Iranian opposition organization MEK a terrorist organization. The MEK has been under savage repression in Iran. Finally, the US State Department has been ordered by a DC court to conduct a serious review of the MEK FTO listing and this cannot be done by low ranking officials fed [...]

Camp Ashraf

Siavosh Rajizadeh — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:23:25 +0000

Like thousands of others who have loved ones in Iraq's refugee camp Camp Ashraf, it's hard for me to sleep at nights not knowing what could happen tomorrow. I just put my trust in the world conscious that it will not allow a new massacre to recur.

The New York Times article Iranian [...]