The Kurdish Closing
A Turkish court recently closed down the country’s only pro-Kurdish party. What happened to the country’s new politics of ethnic tolerance?
Turkey, Iraq, and the Kurds
The Surge: Illusion & Reality
Car bombings, sectarian violence and attacks on U.S. troops are down. But does the reduced violence have anything to do with the “surge”?
Can the Iraqi Insurgency be Neutralized?
Body counts are important to remind us of the sacrifices made so far, but they are not a measure of success.
A Constitution of Trouble
Despite an announced “compromise” both the procedure that produced the Iraqi constitutional draft that will be voted on October 15, and its constitutional substance were and are disastrous.