APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from December 2005

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from December 2005

IRAQ - The Challenges Of Terrorism - Part 5D - Iraq & The US Protection.
December 5, 2005... The US administration has sent its strongest signals yet that it intends to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq next year. It is time the Iraqis stand on their own feet and "defend their free country", says a high-ranking US military officer in...

IRAQ - 'Stability Operations' - Lessons From Iraq.
December 5, 2005... Iraq has been a sobering experience for the US military. It has been an educational one as well. "Out of it", The New York Times on Nov. 28 said, "must come an understanding that there is a lot more to regime change than unleashing the most...

IRAQ - Towards A Moderate U.S. Exit Strategy.
December 5, 2005... In a Nov. 22 article by Bill Danvers, who worked in the Clinton administration's National Security Council, and Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the two experts offered a balanced exit strategy for the US forces,...

IRAQ - The Hawkish U.S. View.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... In a speech at the neo-con American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, Vice President Cheney said critics of the war were overlooking the substantial progress Iraq had already made in fostering democracy and stability. But Rep. Murtha on...

IRAQ - The Arab Conference & US Overtures To Tehran.
December 5, 2005... Iraqi politicians on Nov. 21 wrapped up a three-day Arab League-sponsored reconciliation conference in Cairo with a statement of principles calling for the eventual withdrawal of foreign troops, condemning terrorism and affirming a right of...

IRAQ - Operation Steel Curtain.
December 5, 2005... US forces now hold on to any city or village they recapture from the Neo-Salafi insurgents in Iraq's vast western province of Anbar. The Christian Science Monitor on Nov. 21 focused on New Obeidi, one of a string of towns along the Euphrates...

IRAQ - Sex, Shopping & 'Death Of Assad Regime'.
December 5, 2005... A lengthy report by Asia Times Online (ATO) published on Nov. 17 tells of Syrian volunteers moving to Iraq not for the Neo-Salafi jihad but for having sex with women. It tells of other stories and begins with this: When and if President Bashar...

IRAQ - The Kurdish Vision.
December 5, 2005... In an article published on Oct. 30 by Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, the President of Iraq's Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, wrote of this Kurdish vision: "Our desire for security and our principles of moderation and dialogue were...

IRAQ - The Moral Dimension.
December 5, 2005... Americans like to think of themselves as a moral people, a champion for good in the world. And so it comes as no surprise, in the blistering debate over the Iraq war, that all sides are invoking morality to buttress their position. In his Nov....