Attempts by Iraqi insurgents to undermine confidence in the government only undermine confidence on the part of the public in their cause.
Were Rev. Terry Jones’s threats to burn the Koran enough to inspire the carnage that Islamic State of Iraq inflicted on the church in Baghdad?
Ever wonder why WikiLeaks has been the beneficiary of high-profile document dumps? Perhaps its leaker feared that the mainstream media would have left them to die on the vine.
Ever wonder why WikiLeaks has been the beneficiary of high-profile document dumps? Perhaps its leaker feared that the mainstream media would have left them to die on the vine.
The current right-wing government of Israel wants to negotiate with the Palestinians for their independent state as much as China wants to negotiate with Taiwan for its independent state. I have very little faith that this Israeli government will negotiate in earnest with the Palestinians. Netanyahu wants to negotiate for the sake of negotiation.
To the Bush administration, torture was only a concern if perpetrated by an unfriendly government.
What good was deposing Saddam Hussein if his tyrannical ways were left intact?
Canada’s defeat in elections for a temporary seat in the UN Security Council has implications that reach beyond being an upset for Stephen Harper’s conservative government in Ottawa. It reinforces how far most UN members are from supporting other nations that unconditionally accept Israeli behavior in the Middle East. It also, ironically, lends some support to Ottawa’s longstanding opposition to increasing the number of permanent Security Council members.
If the WikiLeaks documents are any indication, U.S. soldiers suffer the additional burden of a rewritten moral code that demeans the values they thought they were protecting.
The same helicopter unit that killed two Reuters employees and was outed by WikiLeaks has been implicated in another such crime.