Although ostensibly drawing on Islamic principles, the IS ideology distorts them to spawn a separate worldview not captured simply by examination of religiosity. The distortions that distinguish this ideology from Islam would be apparent to…
Mending the Historical Record of the Iraq War
The Abu Ghraib scandal was the Mỹ Lai of the Iraq War. Like the horrifying events of March 16, 1968 in Son Tinh District, South Vietnam, the Abu Ghraib disaster, which broke open on April 28,…
Mending the Historical Record of the Iraq War
It has long since become U.S., Western, and international myth, or “urban legend”, that the George W. Bush Administration–Bush 43 for short–lied about the existence of weapons-of-mass destruction stocks and programs in Iraq in order…
Mending the Historical Record of the Iraq War…
After September 11, 2001 some American analysts obsessed over a possible Iraq-jihadi terrorist connection, despite the lack of hard intelligence evidence to support it, and that is in large part how the tentative logic of…
Appraising the Uncertainty of Post-Withdrawal U.S. Policies Toward…
One year ago, celebration spread across the West and large swaths of the Middle East at the signing of the Abraham Accords. The fruition of quiet diplomacy, the peace agreement between Israel and the UAE,…