The war in Iraq gave birth to today’s ‘trust no one’ politics
Andrew Rawnsley writes: The domestic consequences of Iraq were beyond Chilcot’s remit, but they should be in our scope when we try to explain how Britain ended up in the dark place where it stands...
View ArticleKhizr Khan’s loss: A grieving father of a soldier struggles to understand
On March 22, 2005, the Washington Post reported: Khizr Khan is a lawyer by training and demeanor, an articulate man, a careful and methodical thinker who is trying at 2 p.m. on a Wednesday to make...
View ArticleCapt. Humayun Khan, whose grieving parents have been criticized by Trump, was...
The Washington Post reports: Capt. Humayun Khan didn’t need to be out there that day. Not all officers at Forward Operating Base Warhorse would choose to spend that kind of time outside the gates of...
View ArticleMiddle East bishops say U.S. has ‘moral responsibility’ to help Christians
Crux reports: Catholic leaders in the Middle East say that the United Sates has the “moral responsibility” to help stop the savagery against Christians in the region, and to provide assistance to help...
View ArticleHow many guns did the U.S. lose track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of...
C.J. Chivers reports: Early this year, a Facebook user in Baghdad using the name Hussein Mahyawi posted a photograph of a slightly worn M4 assault rifle he was offering for sale. Veterans of the latest...
View ArticleU.S. military now says ISIS leader was held in Abu Ghraib
The Intercept reports: In February 2004, U.S. troops brought a man named Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry to Abu Ghraib in Iraq and assigned him serial number US9IZ-157911CI. The prison was about to...
View ArticleAmerica has spent almost $5 trillion on wars since 9/11
The Intercept reports: The total U.S. budgetary cost of war since 2001 is $4.79 trillion, according to a report released this week from Brown University’s Watson Institute. That’s the highest estimate...
View ArticleChemical weapons are being used in Iraq – but the U.S. won’t raise hell about it
By Michelle Bentley, Royal Holloway The group known as Islamic State (IS) reportedly used a sulpur-mustard gas against US troops in Iraq. It was detected in a black oily substance found on a rocket...
View ArticleHow the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500 million for top secret Iraq...
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports: The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda programme in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative...
View ArticleU.S. military operations are biggest motivation for homegrown terrorism, FBI...
The Intercept reports: A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of “homegrown” terrorism. The...
View ArticleSupport for refugees is not charity; it contributes to the global stability...
David Miliband, president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, writes: President Trump’s executive order suspending the entire resettlement program for 120 days and banning...
View ArticleTrump betrays Iraqis who helped the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal reports: Iraqi interpreter Laith al-Haydar received multiple death threats for working with the American military at the height of the war in his country. In return for helping...
View ArticleXenophobes can’t protect America; they just turn friends into foes
The Australian children’s author, Mem Fox, describes her treatment by immigration officials in Los Angeles International Airport. She writes: The way I was interviewed was monstrous. If only they had...
View ArticleReassessing Obama’s legacy of restraint
Paul Miller writes: Obama’s foreign policy worldview came from his self-conscious effort to learn the lessons of history — specifically, the lessons of the George W. Bush administration — which no one...
View ArticleHow ISIS took over Mosul
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad writes: From Baghdad, Mosul is viewed with suspicion if not outright hostility. Its people – educated, relatively wealthy and religiously conservative – had dominated both state...
View ArticleIran dominates in Iraq after U.S. ‘handed the country over’
The New York Times reports: Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken. Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts...
View ArticleHow the Pentagon tried to cure America of its ‘Vietnam syndrome’
A couple watch film footage of the Vietnam war on a television in their living room. Library of Congress By Paul Joseph, Tufts University In August 1965, Morley Safer, a reporter for “CBS News,”...
View ArticleTony Blair could face contempt of parliament motion over Iraq war
The Guardian reports: Tony Blair could face a motion of contempt in the House of Commons over the 2003 invasion of Iraq – a motion that Jeremy Corbyn has said he would probably support. The...
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