Avoid Reckless Experiments
Tehran, Iran - The break-up of Iraq will cause regional conflicts and will lead to a massive devaluation of America's political capital as a superpower. It would be a spectacular failure that must be avoided.
Iraq Archives
August 2, 2006 9:23 AM
Comments (13)August 10, 2006 8:45 AM
U.S.-Mideast Tension Harms Global Economies
Tehran, Iran - The United States' excessive spending in the Mideast and fiscal recklessness has led to a massive debt. This worries Asian countries that supply the U.S. goods. Like Bashir says, China might escape the consequences of this shifting U.S. demand for goods, but the impact on more fragile economies in the region will be significant.
September 2, 2006 9:55 AM
To Overcome Colonialism, Communicate
Tehran, Iran - The concept of nation states, especially in the Middle East, East Africa and the Indian subcontinent, were the hurried creation of empires. These "new" political formations maintained colonial aims without principles of democracy. There were no inclusive dialogues and catastrophic consequences.
October 4, 2006 11:40 AM
Don't Draw Lines, Make Money
Tehran, Iran -- America must understand Iraq before advocating devolution. No plan will succeed if it ignores Iraq's economic problems. 50% are jobless. With many more in exile, the dignity of its people must be restored.
November 13, 2006 8:00 AM
Recognize the Shiite Nation
Tehran, Iran - All wars must end. The United States must face reality in Iraq and announce a scheduled withdrawal. This move must be accompanied by several others actions in order to achieve stability.
December 8, 2006 3:07 PM
Winning in the Long Run
Tehran, Iran- Washington needs to think hard and change course. There are some signals that it's doing so, such as Vice President Cheney's "80 percent solution".
January 14, 2007 12:29 PM
Still, "The Ungrateful Volcano"
Tehran, Iran - Back in 1922, a young Winston Churchill said being in Iraq is akin to "living on an ungrateful volcano". Some 80 years later, the Bush Administration must feel the same way.
July 18, 2007 11:29 AM
It's the (Iraqi) Economy, Stupid!
It takes a simple-minded person to accept what is happening in Iraq as progress. After four years into an international disaster composed of political, financial and military failures, all planned around election cycles and factional postures inside the Washington Beltway, a fortified military plan was crafted as the mother of all solutions. One might wonder why America has produced the most precise Global Positioning System, but how its government has its compass!
March 8, 2009 12:06 PM
Iraq Can Take Care of Itself
The premise that ethnic strife in Iraq should necessitate foreign military intervention is an absurd presumption. A democratic political process cannot be delivered on the back of a foreign battle tank. Iraq, a country of more than a hundred tribal groups, does not have a history of violence amongst its ethnic groups. Like elsewhere in the Middle East, tribal loyalties in Iraq are strong. But the logic of presuming future civil war or internal commotion in Iraq is an unfortunate misreading that recalls Lebanon and Vietnam in the 1970s, where American readings of the situation in both countries visibly failed in its Samuel Huntington-based logic. It is also an absurd interpretation of Germany circa WWII. Few recall that Hitler was elected by Germans after a massive economic meltdown of the Weimar Republic. Vietnam was a battle of contrasts and ideologies between two superpowers, whereas the case of Lebanon was a classic version of foreign interventions in a much invaded land that served as a theater for foreign disputes.
