Is Shiite Patience Wearing Thin?
A Man of Great Forbearance and Patience The terrorists in Iraq (and, yes, people who deliberately terrorize a country and massacre innocents are “terrorists,” not “the resistance,” as some have…
War, Peace, and Terrorism
Useful Essay on the Struggle for Islam
Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Zaiuddin Sardar, who is the presenter for the BBC Two program on Islam mentioned below, had an interesting and helpful essay in the Toronto Star in July…
A Soldier’s Story
My friend Joe Coon, a soldier deployed to Iraq, recently enjoyed a bit of leave back in Portland, Oregon. While there he was interviewed in the Willamette Week Online. His…
A Soldier’s Story
My friend Joe Coon, a soldier deployed to Iraq, recently enjoyed a bit of leave back in Portland, Oregon. While there he was interviewed in the Willamette Week Online. His…
Iraqi Constitutionalism
An essay I co-authored with Williamson Evers of the Hoover Institution on the Iraqi constitutional process should be up later today at National Review Online. I hope to have it…
Cited in Christian Science Monitor
The Signing Last Year of Iraq’s Interim Constitution, Which Governs the Process Currently Under Way I have been talking to a number of people lately on the process of drafting…
The Problem with Suicide Bombers? According to Abu Zayd, “quantity and not quality.”
CNN reports that a letter from the “emir of Farming reform battalion on the west side” of Mosul complains of disorganization and disobedience among the jihadis there. The oddest part:…
The Problem with Suicide Bombers? According to Abu Zayd, “quantity and not quality.”
CNN reports that a letter from the “emir of Farming reform battalion on the west side” of Mosul complains of disorganization and disobedience among the jihadis there. The oddest part:…
The Problem with Suicide Bombers? According to Abu Zayd, “quantity and not quality.”
CNN reports that a letter from the “emir of Farming reform battalion on the west side” of Mosul complains of disorganization and disobedience among the jihadis there. The oddest part:…