The war that can bring neither peace nor freedom
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Comment is free: Seumas Milne: The crisis of the Afghan occupation is a reminder of its fraudulent claims, growing cost in blood, and certainty of failure
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War is hell on a presidency. And it plays havoc with presidential campaigns.
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In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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Some days it&#39;s hard to imagine how the news from Iraq can get any worse, although it has a way of doing just that with unsettling regularity.
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Neither early elections nor a plebiscite are particularly desirable. However either of them would be preferable to a civil war, which is where the country could be headed, thanks to the growing extremism of
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Wounded in the battle for Jerusalem, Ya'acov Rotblit composed the anthem of Israel's peace movement. Today, his optimism is tempered with bitter realism
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The most wicked acts are spoken of openly and without reserve in Iraq. Rape is different.
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For Sheikh Mohammad Ali Mohammad al-Ghereri, a Sunni Muslim cleric, the question is no longer whether to tell his followers to fight the Americans, but how to wage war properly.
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Where the war was once the dominating factor in mainstream economic prognostication, lately it has become little more than a tragic sideshow.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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While troop numbers are surging, the media that cover them are leaking away, worn out by the danger and expense of covering a war that refuses to end.
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In two wars, the United States succeeded in toppling two oppressive regimes - the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Ba&#39;athist in Iraq.
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The attacks on New York and Washington stun the world. In the aftermath, technology musters to launch a war on terror.
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âCharlie Wilsonâs Warâ may be more of a hoot than any picture dealing with the bloody, protracted fight between the Soviet Army and the Afghan mujahedeen has any right to be.
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The carnage in Iraq is "sectarian violence," President Bush says. It's a "struggle for freedom," the "central front in the war on terror." It is not, no matter how much it may look like it, a civil war.
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Anger toward America is high, extremists are on the upswing and hopes for democracy in the Middle East lie dashed. The Lebanon war is creating dangerous ripples in the war on terror, the future of Iraq &#151; even the effort to keep nuclear weapons from dangerous hands.