Category Archives: Washington

Escape from Iraq

A story I wrote appeared Mon­day in the Newark Star-Ledger, a great smaller paper that cares about for­eign news. The story dealt with the plight of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

Lives sus­pended by war
AMMAN,

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White House criticizes Democrats, gives GOP a pass

BEIRUT U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi came under fierce crit­i­cism from the White House for her pro­posed trip to Syria tomor­row, but, oddly, a Repub­li­can con­gres­sional del­e­ga­tion yes­ter­day to Syria was given a free pass by the same White House.
As Dana Perino, White House spokes­woman, said:

I do think that, as a genÂeral […]

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Muted reaction to mid-terms in Lebanon

BEIRUT

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Time to invoke Godwin’s Law?

Accom­pa­nied by Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chair­man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Army Gen. Bryan Brown, head of U.S. Spe­cial Oper­a­tions Com­mand, Wol­fowitz observed that pre­vent­ing ter­ror­ism “means more than killing or cap­tur­ing ter­ror­ists.”… The 9/11 Com­mis­sion report, Wol­fowitz told com­mit­tee mem­bers, noted that rad­i­cal Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ists pos­sess an intol­er­ant, non-negotiable ide­ol­ogy and world view that has no regard for human rights or the rule of law…. Today’s rad­i­cal Islamic ter­ror­ists, Wol­fowitz pointed out, “remind you of the noto­ri­ous Nazi groups like the SS that proudly wore the death’s head as their symbol.”

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Worse than a Crime”

More Amer­i­cans and Iraqis dead as vio­lence con­tin­ues in Iraq. Mean­while, the pres­i­dent refuses to back off June 30 because it’s the only thing the White House can control.

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