As long as the social and economic conditions remain along with 138,000 U.S. troops, there will be a movement in Iraq and throughout the Arab world that will oppose the U.S., and the spectrum of that opposition will be one that includes those who commit acts of terrorism.
Iraq: No End In Sight
Morales faces the daunting challenge of governing a troubled and bitter nation, where expectations are high and short-term change is difficult to achieve.
The stakes in the referendum on the Iraqi Constitution.
What happened in Basra may be a preview of a strategy aimed at causing the collapse of the U.S. political position in one city after another.
President Bushs inclusion of North Korea in an axis of evil with Iran and Iraq is only the latest indication of Washingtons new hard-line approach to Pyongyang.
September turned out to be a tragic escalation over preceding months in the multinational reach and catastrophic scale of exclusively human violence.