Commentary Twenty years ago last week, American aircraft bombarded Baghdad, starting the United States’ nine-year misadventure in Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney predicted that Americans would be “greeted as liberators.” This came true, but only briefly. Iraqi citizens—having endured decades of suffering under Saddam Hussein and his vicious, kleptocratic relatives and cronies—cheered when in just…
The Coming Revolution of the Hungry: Iran’s Regime Faces Biggest Challenge to Date
Commentary Iran’s revolution may well come by way of imperious necessity, and not, as experts have long posited, out of a yearning for democratic change. And though this isn’t to say that Iranians don’t long for their freedom—they most certainly do—it remains true that a lack of leadership on the part of the opposition has…
Emboldening the Enemy
Commentary Once again, a Democrat is in the White House, and once again, the Middle East is on fire. This might seem like an odd, even tendentious, statement. But it’s supported by the past half-century of history. Granted, the region has long simmered with ethnic and religious hatreds. And certainly there has been periodic flare-ups…
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