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Abid Mustafa
As events in Iraq enter a critical phase, where according to the CIA’s own sources, Iraqi oposition could become so widespread and popular that the USA-led occupation could fail altogether, this article offers an analysis of events since the war began, and how, despite caving into USA pressure at last month’s UN Security Council vote, other key state players may still leave the occupiers to deal with their own self-made catastrophe.
World Crisis Web Editorial
With both the rate, the coordination, and the success of attacks against ?coalition? troops increasing exponentially since before the beginning of Ramadan, it?s been a bad few weeks for the new occupier of Baghdad?s Republican palace, and no better for the other illegal President over the water in Washington. The one a mere underling of the other, Paul Bremer has been summarily summoned to the White House for talks on how to “push the envelope” further in Iraq (euphemism for “get your f***ing act together, Bremer!").
Helena Cobban
It is six months since Baghdad fell to General Tommy Franks’ forces, and already it is clear that the Bush administration’s decision to launch the fundamentally unilateral, preventive war of early 2003 will change the whole Middle East and the whole global balance - just not in the way they intended it to.
Rami G. Khouri
President George W. Bush’s sudden call last week to make democratic freedoms the goal of USA policy in the Middle East is a good idea in principle, but it should be studied more carefully: this is like a used car that has been offered to us for purchase before. We need to kick these tires a few times, look closely under the hood, and buy only when we’re sure the product on offer is the real thing.
M. Junaid Alam
The rapidly decreasing morale and increasingly high suicide rate among USA soldiers in Iraq is probably attributable to the ululating musicals being sung by the locals in their honour - not exactly Metallica material. Helicopter crewmen, too, have been irked as villagers below happily hurl flowers in the air with such vigour that it’s doing a number on the rotor blades.
George Monbiot
Those who would take us to war must first shut down the public imagination. They must convince us that there is no other means of preventing invasion, or conquering terrorism, or even defending human rights. When information is scarce, imagination is easy to control. As intelligence gathering and diplomacy are conducted in secret, we seldom discover - until it is too late - how plausible the alternatives may be.
Patrick Graham
Sarab rolls up her sleeve and looks at the thick scar across her upper arm. The eight-year-old says she was playing in the bathroom of her house when the shots were fired but cannot remember anything else. “It is their routine,” said her grandfather, Turk Jassim. “After the Americans are attacked, they shoot everywhere. This is inhuman - a stupid act by a country always talking about human rights.”
Rev. Giles Fraser
It all sounds innocent enough. Operation Christmas Child “is a unique ministry that brings Christmas joy, packed in gift-filled shoeboxes, to children around the world”. But what many parents and teachers don’t know is that behind Operation Christmas Child is the Christian right charity ‘Samaritan’s Purse’. Their aim is “the advancement of the Christian faith through educational projects and the relief of poverty”. And a particularly toxic version of Christianity it is.
Olivia Ward
USA intelligence agents have admitted that turning over suspected terrorists to countries noted for their violent interrogation methods is now common practice in a no-holds-barred war on ‘terrorism’.
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