Archive for September, 2007
September 26th, 2007
Iran: Chronicle of a War Foretold?
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece Chronicle of Death Foretold, a murder is committed in defense of family honor because nobody does anything to stop two brothers carrying it out, even though they actually want to be stopped. And the careless and infantile scripts being penned by politicians in the U.S., Iran and Israel may yet [...]
September 17th, 2007
Only Iran Can End U.S. Iraq Nightmare
Absent a grand bargain with Iran, talks between U.S. and Iranian ambassadors in Baghdad are just going through the motion As I wrote on TIME.com last week, Bush is in no position to bring the Iraq war to a satisfactory conclusion; the U.S. is treading water in Iraq lacking both any reason to believe the [...]
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