Connecting.the.Dots

As a woman in a pants suit campaigns to become President of the United States, others are being killed on the streets of Basra for wearing m...

During his testimony last week, Gen. Petraeus described what’s happening in the city of Basra as “mildly heartening.” Despite worries about ...

The President’s speech writer had to make a last-minute addition to his TV talk tonight about “the way forward” in Iraq. Right after “The c...

During his six-hour stay in a well-fortified air field in Anbar, the President may well have exacerbated sectarian tension in a way that wi...

After a touchy few words about American Senators’ “severe interference in our domestic affairs,” Iraq’s Prime Minister assembled a Sunni, Sh...

The problem with puppet governments is that they come with strings. In Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki keeps trying to show he’s not ou...

Sen. Carl Levin says the glass in Iraq is more than half-empty, Sen. John Warner says it may be half-full and Fox News sees it brimming ove...

In today’s Washington Post we can see the future, and it doesn’t work. The southern city of Basra, where there has been no sectarian violen...

As an antidote to Bush fatuity, we now have the thinking man’s explanation for supporting the war and getting it totally wrong. A former Har...