Beyond Quagmire
Leaving
Iraq – The Grim Truth
Rolling Stone Magazine
Panel Discussion
3.12.07
Zbigniew Brzezinski
National security adviser to President Carter
Richard Clarke
Counterterrorism czar from 1992 to 2003
Nir Rosen
Author of In the Belly of
the Green Bird, about Iraq’s spiral into civil war,
speaking from Cairo, where he has been interviewing Iraqi refugees
Gen. Tony McPeak (retired)
Member of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff during the Gulf War
Bob Graham
Former chair, Senate
Intelligence Committee
Chas Freeman
Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
during the Gulf War; president of the Middle East Policy Council
Paul Pillar
Former lead counterterrorism analyst for the CIA
Michael Scheuer
Former chief of the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit; author of Imperial Hubris
Juan Cole
Professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan
News & Views
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Sunday Attacks
Leave 76 Iraqis, 3 GIs Dead, 71 Iraqis Wounded
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More US troops for Iraq, Afghanistan
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MILITARISM:
America Leads the World (Editorial,
Charleston Gazette)
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American Foreign Policy: 60
Years of Faulty Logic (by James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
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Olmert
'planned Lebanon war before soldiers' kidnap' (Independent, UK) Ehud Olmert's
decision to go to war in Lebanon in response to abductions of soldiers was
taken as early as March 2006, according to a leak of his evidence to the
commission investigating the war. The report means that the military
strategy was decided more than three months before it was triggered by
Hizbollah's abductions of two soldiers on Israel's northern border in July.
Israeli officials said this was broadly in line with what the Prime
Minister has already told the cabinet.
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Military
action against Iran would backfire on Israel, report warns (Independent,
UK) Military action against Iran would backfire against Israel,
which in turn would face "dire and far-reaching" consequences, a
leading British foreign policy think-tank believes. Chatham House
says in a report that it is "widely assumed" that preparations
are "well under way" in both America and Israel for military
action against targets related to Iran's nuclear programme. The report by
Yossi Mekelberg examines the possible responses by Iran, which may
retaliate with massive ballistic missile attacks on Israeli cities such as
Tel Aviv or Haifa, resulting in "substantial loss of life".
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Jews
share blame for suffering: Winston Churchill (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia) The article
begins with reference to persecution of Jews over the centuries and refers
to a new wave of anti-Semitism across Europe and the US. "It would be
easy to ascribe it to the wickedness of the persecutors, but that does not
fit all the facts," it reads. "It exists even in lands, like
Great Britain and the United States, where Jew and Gentile are equal in the
eyes of the law, and where large numbers of Jews have found, not only
asylum, but opportunity. "These facts must be faced in any analysis of
anti-Semitism. They should be pondered especially by the Jews themselves.
"For it may be that, unwittingly, they are inviting persecution - that
they have been partly responsible for the antagonism from which they
suffer."
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ISRAEL LOBBY: Cheney repeats
“The Big Lie” and swears allegiance
to Israel
Colombians
Clash with Police During Bush Visit
Roger Triana
Demonstrators protesting President Bush's visit charge
riot police in Bogota, Colombia,
March 11, 2007. AP
A demonstrator,
dressed as a U.S. prisoner, protest after the arrival of U.S. President
George W. Bush in Bogota March 11, 2007.
REUTERS/Daniel Munoz
Demonstrators burn a replica of a U.S. flag after the
arrival of U.S. President
George W. Bush in Bogota March 11, 2007. REUTERS/Daniel
Munoz
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Bush and Chavez:
A Marriage Made in Hell
Years of strife and lost hope scar young
Palestinians
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images
A Palestinian youth threw stones at Israeli soldiers
in Ramallah, West Bank last week.
Parents fear that the atmosphere of despair has
destroyed their children's sense of hope.
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Libby, Lies, and Another Bad War (by Charles Kupchan and Ray Takeyh, Los Angeles Times)
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Democratic
senators say Gonzales should go
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AUDIO: Harry Belafonte unleashed
-- 'Condoleezza Rice
is revered nowhere. She has influence over nothingness’...
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Rice's
Hiring of Neocon Leaves Observers Puzzled
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U.S. security scares
foreign visitors away
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Guess
who is coming to lunch? Halliburton
moving headquarters to Dubai
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Ariane-5 rocket launches
British, Indian satellites
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Belgrade, Pristina fail to agree on
Kosovo's future
Cartoons
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Captain Latin America… Christo Komarnitski, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Sit and be
quiet… Rainer Hachfeld, Berlin, Germany, Neues Deutschland
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Bite by bite… Alexander Zudin, Obshaya Gazeta, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Government, what it knows about you… Mike Keefe, The Denver Post
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Political Dynasty… Manny Aenlle Francisco The Manila Times, Manila, The
Philippines
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