Back on May 1, 2003, President Bush arrived on the USS Abraham Lincoln to announce that the US had achieved victory in Iraq. As everyone knows, that announcement turned out to be a bit premature. It’s just about time now for the President to make the real victory announcement. After the Iraqi Council of Ministers [...]
Entries from February 2007
21 February 2007
Somalia’s failed Ethiopian solution
When Ethiopia sent troops into Somalia in December, I was disturbed that the US simply went along with Ethiopia’s invasion. The Ethiopians were supposedly there to restore the official government and bring order to the Islamist controlled Somalia. The Ethiopians and their superior military quickly gained control of the country and drove the Islamists from [...]
14 February 2007
Dispelling the Sectarian Conflict Myth
Abu Aardvark has a post about AlJazeera’s recent broadcasting of a discussion Sunni Islamist Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Iranian politico Akbar Hashmi Rafsanjani. They discussed the supposed Shia-Sunni conflict, and they both saw the tensions between Sunni and Shia being exploited by the U.S. and Israel. According to Abu Aardvark’s summary of the dialogue,
Arab political [...]
