Global Issues
News headlines for “Iraq Crisis”, page 18
U.S.: Military Dominance in Mideast Proven a Costly Myth
- Inter Press Service
The arguments for maintaining a major U.S. combat force in Iraq at least through 2011, escalating U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and assuming a confrontational stance toward Iran appear to assume that the United States remains the dominant military power in the region.
IRAQ: Stumbling From One Conflict to Another?
- Inter Press Service
When U.S. President Barack Obama announced his plan last week to pull out all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by September 2010, the news did not generate much enthusiasm among Iraqi Kurds.
POLITICS-US: Drawdown Plan May Leave Combat Brigades in Iraq
- Inter Press Service
President Barack Obama has given military commanders a free hand to determine the size and composition of a residual force in Iraq up to 50,000 troops, apparently including the option of leaving one or more combat brigades or bringing them from the United States, after the August 2010 deadline for the ostensible withdrawal of all combat brigades now in Iraq.
RIGHTS: Britain Admits Complicity in U.S. Rendition
- Inter Press Service
In a stunning reversal, Britain’s government admitted Wednesday that it participated in the ‘extraordinary rendition’ to Afghanistan of two terror suspects captured in Iraq.
IRAQ: Doctors in Hiding Treat as They Can
- Inter Press Service
Seventy percent of Iraq's doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest.
IRAQ: Still Homeless in Baghdad
- Inter Press Service
'We only want a normal life,' says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years.
POLITICS: Commanders in Iraq Challenge Petraeus on Pullout Risk
- Inter Press Service
CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and Multinational Force Iraq (MNF-I) Commander General Ray Odierno have submitted assessments of Iraq combat troop withdrawal plans to President Barack Obama based on the premise that his 16-month withdrawal plan would pose significantly greater risk to 'security gains' than the 23-month plan they favour.
POLITICS-US: Democrats Divided Over 'Reckoning' for Bush
- Inter Press Service
With growing public support for a public investigation of crimes that may have been committed by the administration of former president George W. Bush in waging its 'global war on terror', policy makers and legal experts are deeply divided on how to proceed - and President Barack Obama seems ambivalent about whether to proceed at all.
BOOKS: Was Bush Doctrine Just a Little Bit of History Repeating?
- Inter Press Service
Was the foreign policy of George W. Bush an aberration in U.S. history, a turn away from the traditional guiding principles of U.S. foreign policy towards messianic ambitions of permanent supremacy and universal democracy?
IRAQ: The River Too Tells the Story
- Inter Press Service
There is less water now in the Tigris, and it is less clean. The river has fewer fish, and rising fuel and other costs mean they are more costly to catch. It's not, as Hamza Majit finds, a good time to be a fisher.
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