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… distrustful of the Defense Department under Rumsfeld. Bridging two administrations, Gates gets credit for stabilizing Iraq, though the key decisions that led to success--a surge of troops and the appointment of Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the strategy--predated his arrival....

…gested the two of us withdraw to speak “soldier to soldier.” We retreated to his office. Spreading out a map of western Iraq, I went into greater detail, explaining how we would remain in the Iraqi desert on a search-and-destroy mission against the mobile launchers. Colin stresse...

…the United States. While Washington has been caught up prolonging the Israel-Palestinian conflict and starting a war in Iraq, Dubai was erecting one of the worlds most spectacular cities. So, how can Dubai fix the Middle East? It certainly can't do much to help Palestinians suffe...

… may elicit a more robust reaction from the West. Terrorism could spread in the US and Europe as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) loses territory in Iraq and Syria and foreign fighters return home. North Outlook | Investment Strategy Group 1 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014534

…ch scrutiny by US authorities, it turned out, because of her documentary about American military abuses of civilians in Iraq in 2005 entitled “The Oath”. While filming it she was at a place close to an insurgent ambush of US troops in Iraq. Her presence at the ambush site led A...

…or advancing liberal democracy], and the Bush administration hadn’t really thought through the implications of invading Iraq. I still think there are ways that the United States can help promote democracy, but it’s a slow and long-term process. For example, I’m on the board of th...

…ll has reached 50 in this Muslim Kurds vs. Muslim Turks war. This excludes the PKK casualties in Turkey and in northern Iraq due to Turkish military retaliation since they are seldom accurately reported. Let’s speak of facts. Sudan is not in the conventional Middle East, so let...

…banon — and vowed to “let our fire eat half of Israel” in a future war. And we could not assume this was mere rhetoric. Iraq had an arsenal of Soviet-made ballistic missiles. Called Scuds, they were not always accurate at long range. But they could reach Israeli towns and cities,...

…he weeks after the training accident made secrecy impossible. We were planning to infiltrate a Sayeret Matkal unit into Iraq, and to kill Saddam Hussein. The Gulf War had blunted any immediate threat from Iraq. But Saddam had proven he could launch missiles into the heart of Isr...

…et in secret consumed by turmoil and conflict, it’s to thrash out their differences. al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, As a journalist covering these Syria and Libya that are dominating extraordinary events for The Daily the headlines, not the peace process. Telegraph duri...

…han they have been in the past. To be sure, much of the Arab support for past American military operations -- like both Iraq wars -- was hidden from the public eye. Arab states often loudly and publicly denounced "unilateral American" military action in the region at the same tim...

…cks. As of early 2011, some where between 900,000 to over a million soldiers and civilians have died in Afghanistan and Iraq due to the war. This is excessive. This is no longer revenge. This is senseless brutality. On one reading, Pope Benedict XVI kept his knowledge of pedophi...

… in the president's speech -- just one throwaway line about supporting Syria's opposition. Obama did not disengage from Iraq and Afghanistan only to plunge America into new black holes in the Middle East. Obama isn't worried about boots on the ground in Syria. That was never on t...

…lity in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. He cites Clinton's support for the Iraq war - launched by former Republican President George W. Bush - as another example of her shortcomings. Ata rally Wednesday night in Sacramento, California...

…l marijuana and for requiring a urine test as a prerequisite to obtaining a driver’ s license. I' m ashamed of bombing Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015140