It’d be easy to blame everything on 9/11 or the wars that came after. It’s really about the choices we made. By necessity we adapt to the realities of the world we live in, but...

It was too late to pray, though. The sky was clear. The helicopters were gone. Too late for so many things. My fists hit the floor. My head hit the floor. My heart broke, hardened,...

I have this thought, it’s horrible, and it makes me sick, but it’s true: one day these students will grow up and have their own kids, and they’re going to name them for men and...

The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an...

Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as...

I’m praying we don’t go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

With such contradictory declarations, Rumsfeld is trying to cover the US mistakes in Iraq.

The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn’t...

Liberating Iraq from a legacy of violence and putting it on the path to peace and prosperity will take time.

This isn’t Iraq ,

They don’t like the idea of Iraq being described as federal, they prefer united, but I don’t think they are going to get that.

This administration is forced to follow this route because of the failures of Iraq.

Teaching isn’t rocket science. It’s about being engaged, listening, paying attention. Despite conventional wisdom, you don’t need to talk a lot to teach well. You do need to care, though. Not so much about what...

We’ve tried to go way beyond the stereotype we’ve all had at one time of Iraq as a Godforsaken wasteland plagued by car bombs and violence.

In the evening [the Iraqi interim governor of Maysan province] asked me for fifty dollars to repair his windows, which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Although he was the governor, his salary was...

The Malaysia-Iraq ties have never been broken,

It is a way for our congregation to get connected with Iraq. This definitely gives folks a hands-on way to respond. This is just good through and through.

Are you okay, man?””Yeah, I’m good.”It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.

he has approved, as revised, the distribution plan submitted by Iraq.

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

It boils down to this: If you work in an operating room, you are required to make an immediate decision. If you are a National Guardsman in Iraq, you have to make immediate decisions, …...

We cannot let extremists and terrorists, a small number, here in Iraq deprive the 27 million Iraqis of what they want, which is a better freer life, safer life for themselves and their children,

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility… to keep Iraq’s unity and safety.

Iraq should understand that if we continue to report that there are open questions and we cannot exclude the possibility that they still have some weapons of mass destruction, that will not satisfy the Security...

In the 1980’s, our Arab allies in the region and our own assessment convinced us that Iraq might be a new kind of moderate Arab leader, that [Saddam] could be brought into the moderate Arab...

It felt like we were reliving the first day of the school year, when students and teachers do the get-to-know-you dance—teachers tell students something about who they are, students pretend to care, and then vice-versa.

I mean, we’ve had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take...

an important message, I think, for the regime and the people of Iraq to understand: that this regime is gone.

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Iraq has been known for saying all kinds of inflammatory things in the past, … And the president’s not really interested as much in what they say as what they do.

the shooting and killing weren’t as black-and-white as most people think. The actions live in that hazy area of blown-apart stone walls and hesitations. Sometimes I shot when I shouldn’t have; other times I didn’t...

Whatever differences we had in the past, that a free and prosperous and stable Iraq is a linchpin and a key to a stable Middle East is understood, … people are looking for ways that...

We are pleased to have frank dialogue with them [the EU delegation]. They visited Iraq, which was liberated from dictatorship, to show their solidarity with the Iraqi people and pave the way to the conference...

I don’t care how we got in [to Iraq].

if you use that logic and reasoning, that means every car bomb in Iraq would be considered an in-kind contribution to John Kerry.

Military intervention cannot liberate women because it is embedded within a set of assumptions, beliefs, and social relations that reinforce and reproduce gender inequality, as well as other social inequalities within and across nation-states. Military...

Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends,...

In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and...

DPRK translates to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—and if the words Democratic and Republic sound like a good thing, well, it’s oxymoronic because the Korea we’re talking about here is the communist one in the...

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given...

In terms of border issue with Iraq, obviously, we and the Iraqis monitor closely the activities of Iranian representatives in Iraq.

Bush, you must admit that you have been defeated in Iraq and that you are being defeated in Afghanistan and that you will soon be defeated in Palestine, with the help and strength of God.

So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the bar or bat mitzvah of a friend’s...

He’s defending the issue of pursuing the Oil for Food program investigation. He’s defending the full sovereignty. There are attempts to undermine sovereignty in Iraq. He’s defending the issue of not accepting any ruling by...

The motive behind such dirty moves is to sow discord, target Islamic and national unity and solidarity in Iraq.

If she gets good care when she returns to Iraq, she should live a long and full life.

We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I’m glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young...

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Iraq is a very useful base to spread jihad in the Middle East. They have men there and weapons there and there is a breakdown in law and order. Conditions are similar to those in...