IRAQ
Sunday, October 23, 2005 Iraqi Conundrums (2002-2003) Why I thought (and still think) that the 2003 Iraq war was necessary and justified.
Sunday, October 23, 2005 David Hirst, "Iraqis want to be rid of Saddam" (February 2003)
Saturday, November 1, 2003 Al Gore on Iraq (February 12, 2002)
Monday, March 25, 2002 Jeffrey Goldberg, "The Great Terror" (New Yorker)
Monday, March 25, 2002 Goldberg & Hirst on Iraqi Kurdistan
Monday, March 25, 2002 Iraq - and the real Cheney
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 "Reality checks" on Iraq, genocide, etc.
Sunday, July 28, 2002 Nick Cohen, "The Last Thing the US Wants is Democracy in Iraq"
Thursday, August 1, 2002 "The last thing the US wants is democracy in Iraq"
Thursday, August 1, 2002 Iraq sanctions & the moral contradictions of "anti-war" rhetoric
Friday, August 16, 2002 What do Iraqis want? (Martin Woollacott - August 2002)
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 "Baseless Comparisons": UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel
Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Edward Said tries to smear Kanan Makiya
Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Peter Galbraith on Iraqi Kurdistan
Thursday, February 13, 2003 "Ecocide as Genocide" - Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs (Joseph Dellapenna)
Sunday, February 23, 2003 Why war would be justified (Economist)
Monday, March 17, 2003 Lord Goldsmith - Legal basis for use of force against Iraq
Monday, March 31, 2003 Who armed Saddam? - Some reality checks
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Iraq: phantom counterfactuals (A response to Juan Cole)
Monday, August 25, 2003 Michael Walzer on just wars, politics, & moral responsibilities (Imprints interview)
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Two Years of Gibberish" (Prospect)
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Juan Cole on the War in Iraq Two statements by Juan Cole, plus an exchange between a friend and myself.
Thursday, November 13, 2003 Juan Cole's Israel obsessions
Friday, December 5, 2003 Ayatollah Sistani on oral sex
Thursday, January 8, 2004 Juan Cole on the Iraq war (restated)
Friday, March 26, 2004 Kurds, containment, counterfactuals, etc.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 David Aaronovitch, "The Trouble with Sontag's Story" (Guardian)
Monday, July 12, 2004 Saddam Hussein & comparative fascism
Monday, August 16, 2004 Kristof & Zakaria - getting serious about nuclear proliferation
Saturday, August 28, 2004 Sistani's triumph?
Thursday, September 9, 2004 Fareed Zakaria - The Lonesome Doves of Europe (September 2002)
Thursday, September 9, 2004 some random thoughts on "terrorism"
Monday, September 13, 2004 Juan Cole on the (Iraqi) politics of Fallujah
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Not an illegal war (Normblog)
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Karl Polanyi, Alexis de Tocqueville, & Muqtada al-Sadr
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Was there any moral case against the Iraq war? (Normblog)
Thursday, November 18, 2004 Some words of sanity on Iraq from Juan Cole
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Some Implications of the UN/Iraq Oil-for-Food Scandal (Normblog)
Friday, December 17, 2004 Juan Cole, "Iraq the Model," & Jeff Jarvis
Thursday, January 13, 2005 Juan Cole et al. - "The Third Baath Coup?"
Monday, January 17, 2005 The Iraqi elections (Normblog)
Sunday, February 13, 2005 The Election Results In Iraq (Normblog)
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 "The environmental crime of the century" - Saddam's ecocide in the Mesopotamian marshes
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Some thoughts on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi 'insurgency' (Normblog)
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Juan Cole on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi "insurgency"
Sunday, May 29, 2005 Abandonment of Iraq Is Wrong - Erik Gustafson
Monday, August 22, 2005 Juan Cole opposes US abandonment of Iraq
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Brendan O'Leary on the Iraqi Constitution (Normblog)
Saturday, August 27, 2005 Andrew Arato on the Iraqi constitutional breakdown
Sunday, August 28, 2005 "Letter from an Iraqi Reader" to Juan Cole
Monday, September 5, 2005 Weintraub vs. Schwartz on the Iraqi insurgency (Contexts)
Monday, September 19, 2005 George Galloway in Madison (Chad Goldberg)
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Can there be a 'historic compromise' in Arab Iraq?
Saturday, October 22, 2005 Rosenfeld & Yglesias, "The Incompetence Dodge" (American Prospect)
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Restating the moral case for the Iraq war - Thomas Cushman, ed., A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
Sunday, November 13, 2005 Susan Sontag - "Why Are We In Kosovo?" (1999)
Monday, December 12, 2005 What are Iraqis thinking now? (BBC/ABC survey)
Thursday, December 15, 2005 Breaking the power of the assassins (Lebanon Daily Star)
Friday, December 16, 2005 An Iraq roundup from Norman Geras
Monday, December 19, 2005 "Dangerous Territory" - Paul Berman & Bob Herbert
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 A Fraudulent "Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics"
Friday, January 20, 2006 Kanan Makiya Interview (Part 1) - Putting Cruelty First
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Iraqis still think it was worth it
Sunday, March 12, 2006 The Iraq war from Saddam's perspective (NYTimes)
Monday, March 13, 2006 Black Sunday in Iraq (Juan Cole)
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Ritter vs. Ritter (Tim Blair)
Friday, May 19, 2006 Mass murder, political atrocity, & the failures of western moral imagination - "The Black Book of Saddam Hussein" (Gerard Alexander)
Saturday, June 3, 2006 Fred Halliday on internationalism & human rights (Salmagundi)
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Zarqawi's end
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who -- and what -- was Zarqawi? (Hitchens, Kaplan, & the Atlantic)
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who mourns Zarqawi? (DPA & Juan Cole)
Sunday, June 18, 2006 Occidentalism and "Anti-Imperialism" (Marko Attila Hoare & Ian Buruma)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Newsflash - Zarqawi was a US "asset" (Riverbend & Al-Ahram)
Thursday, June 22, 2006 P.S. on Riverbend and "the Iraqi puppet government"
Thursday, June 29, 2006 Who is murdering Iraqi civilians? (Norman Geras)
Tuesday, July 4, 2006 "A shameful debate" on Iraq (Trudy Rubin)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What will happen if the US abandons Iraq? (Trudy Rubin via Norman Geras)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What is Muqtada al-Sadr's game?
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazis rally against Iraq war
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Kurdistan: Birth of a nation? (Patrick Cockburn)
Monday, July 10, 2006 What happened to the Genocide Convention?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Genocide & legalism (contd.)
Monday, July 10, 2006 More bad news from Baghdad (Mark Kleiman)
Monday, July 17, 2006 Are some of Iraq's Sunni Arabs waking up to reality?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld in Iraq - "A Banana Republic Coup D'Etat" (Thomas Ricks via Belgravia Dispatch)
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Henry Farrell's correct views on war, political responsibility, & Iraq
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Fareed Zakaria & Hillary Clinton on Donald Rumsfeld
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 "Mass Murder: What Causes it? Can It be Stopped" - Some afterthoughts on the ASA forum
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Offending the right people (for the right reasons) - I agree with Noam Chomsky
Saturday, September 9, 2006 The true Iraq appeasers (Peter Galbraith)
Saturday, September 30, 2006 Bob Woodward abandons the sinking ship?
Thursday, October 5, 2006 Woodward the weather vane (Jacob Weisberg)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 A Manifesto for American Liberalism - Todd Gitlin & Bruce Ackerman
Friday, November 10, 2006 What Democrats should do now on foreign policy (Suzanne Nossel)
Friday, December 1, 2006 Iraq - Realism and "Realism" (George Packer)
Saturday, December 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006 (David Hirst)
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Zarqawi - Man of the Year for 2006? (Andrew Sullivan)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Some dissenting thoughts on Gerald Ford (Sisyphus)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Michael Young reflects on Saddam Hussein, his victims, and Arab politics (Beirut Daily Star)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Saddam's end - "Justice, but No Reckoning" (Najmaldin Karim)
Friday, January 5, 2007 Time to revive "Kurd Sellout Watch"?
Friday, January 5, 2007 Getting serious about Iraq - too late? (Juan Cole)
Monday, January 15, 2007 Some unhappy thoughts on options in Iraq (which all look scary)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Inside Baghdad's civil war (contd.)
Monday, January 29, 2007 Who has been murdering Iraqi civilians? - A reminder of the obvious
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Is Saudi Arabia using the price of oil to pressure Iran?
Sunday, March 11, 2007 Panel discussion on Iraq - Saturday, March 17, 2007 (Eastern Sociological Society)
Sunday, October 23, 2005 David Hirst, "Iraqis want to be rid of Saddam" (February 2003)
Saturday, November 1, 2003 Al Gore on Iraq (February 12, 2002)
Monday, March 25, 2002 Jeffrey Goldberg, "The Great Terror" (New Yorker)
Monday, March 25, 2002 Goldberg & Hirst on Iraqi Kurdistan
Monday, March 25, 2002 Iraq - and the real Cheney
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 "Reality checks" on Iraq, genocide, etc.
Sunday, July 28, 2002 Nick Cohen, "The Last Thing the US Wants is Democracy in Iraq"
Thursday, August 1, 2002 "The last thing the US wants is democracy in Iraq"
Thursday, August 1, 2002 Iraq sanctions & the moral contradictions of "anti-war" rhetoric
Friday, August 16, 2002 What do Iraqis want? (Martin Woollacott - August 2002)
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 "Baseless Comparisons": UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel
Tuesday, December 24, 2002 Edward Said tries to smear Kanan Makiya
Wednesday, February 5, 2003 Peter Galbraith on Iraqi Kurdistan
Thursday, February 13, 2003 "Ecocide as Genocide" - Saddam's campaign against the Marsh Arabs (Joseph Dellapenna)
Sunday, February 23, 2003 Why war would be justified (Economist)
Monday, March 17, 2003 Lord Goldsmith - Legal basis for use of force against Iraq
Monday, March 31, 2003 Who armed Saddam? - Some reality checks
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Iraq: phantom counterfactuals (A response to Juan Cole)
Monday, August 25, 2003 Michael Walzer on just wars, politics, & moral responsibilities (Imprints interview)
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Two Years of Gibberish" (Prospect)
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Juan Cole on the War in Iraq Two statements by Juan Cole, plus an exchange between a friend and myself.
Thursday, November 13, 2003 Juan Cole's Israel obsessions
Friday, December 5, 2003 Ayatollah Sistani on oral sex
Thursday, January 8, 2004 Juan Cole on the Iraq war (restated)
Friday, March 26, 2004 Kurds, containment, counterfactuals, etc.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 David Aaronovitch, "The Trouble with Sontag's Story" (Guardian)
Monday, July 12, 2004 Saddam Hussein & comparative fascism
Monday, August 16, 2004 Kristof & Zakaria - getting serious about nuclear proliferation
Saturday, August 28, 2004 Sistani's triumph?
Thursday, September 9, 2004 Fareed Zakaria - The Lonesome Doves of Europe (September 2002)
Thursday, September 9, 2004 some random thoughts on "terrorism"
Monday, September 13, 2004 Juan Cole on the (Iraqi) politics of Fallujah
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Not an illegal war (Normblog)
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 Karl Polanyi, Alexis de Tocqueville, & Muqtada al-Sadr
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Was there any moral case against the Iraq war? (Normblog)
Thursday, November 18, 2004 Some words of sanity on Iraq from Juan Cole
Thursday, December 2, 2004 Some Implications of the UN/Iraq Oil-for-Food Scandal (Normblog)
Friday, December 17, 2004 Juan Cole, "Iraq the Model," & Jeff Jarvis
Thursday, January 13, 2005 Juan Cole et al. - "The Third Baath Coup?"
Monday, January 17, 2005 The Iraqi elections (Normblog)
Sunday, February 13, 2005 The Election Results In Iraq (Normblog)
Tuesday, February 15, 2005 "The environmental crime of the century" - Saddam's ecocide in the Mesopotamian marshes
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Some thoughts on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi 'insurgency' (Normblog)
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Juan Cole on the terrorist strategy of the Iraqi "insurgency"
Sunday, May 29, 2005 Abandonment of Iraq Is Wrong - Erik Gustafson
Monday, August 22, 2005 Juan Cole opposes US abandonment of Iraq
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 Brendan O'Leary on the Iraqi Constitution (Normblog)
Saturday, August 27, 2005 Andrew Arato on the Iraqi constitutional breakdown
Sunday, August 28, 2005 "Letter from an Iraqi Reader" to Juan Cole
Monday, September 5, 2005 Weintraub vs. Schwartz on the Iraqi insurgency (Contexts)
Monday, September 19, 2005 George Galloway in Madison (Chad Goldberg)
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 Can there be a 'historic compromise' in Arab Iraq?
Saturday, October 22, 2005 Rosenfeld & Yglesias, "The Incompetence Dodge" (American Prospect)
Sunday, October 30, 2005 Restating the moral case for the Iraq war - Thomas Cushman, ed., A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
Sunday, November 13, 2005 Susan Sontag - "Why Are We In Kosovo?" (1999)
Monday, December 12, 2005 What are Iraqis thinking now? (BBC/ABC survey)
Thursday, December 15, 2005 Breaking the power of the assassins (Lebanon Daily Star)
Friday, December 16, 2005 An Iraq roundup from Norman Geras
Monday, December 19, 2005 "Dangerous Territory" - Paul Berman & Bob Herbert
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 A Fraudulent "Appeal to Save Iraq's Academics"
Friday, January 20, 2006 Kanan Makiya Interview (Part 1) - Putting Cruelty First
Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Iraqis still think it was worth it
Sunday, March 12, 2006 The Iraq war from Saddam's perspective (NYTimes)
Monday, March 13, 2006 Black Sunday in Iraq (Juan Cole)
Sunday, April 16, 2006 Ritter vs. Ritter (Tim Blair)
Friday, May 19, 2006 Mass murder, political atrocity, & the failures of western moral imagination - "The Black Book of Saddam Hussein" (Gerard Alexander)
Saturday, June 3, 2006 Fred Halliday on internationalism & human rights (Salmagundi)
Thursday, June 8, 2006 Zarqawi's end
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who -- and what -- was Zarqawi? (Hitchens, Kaplan, & the Atlantic)
Saturday, June 10, 2006 Who mourns Zarqawi? (DPA & Juan Cole)
Sunday, June 18, 2006 Occidentalism and "Anti-Imperialism" (Marko Attila Hoare & Ian Buruma)
Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Newsflash - Zarqawi was a US "asset" (Riverbend & Al-Ahram)
Thursday, June 22, 2006 P.S. on Riverbend and "the Iraqi puppet government"
Thursday, June 29, 2006 Who is murdering Iraqi civilians? (Norman Geras)
Tuesday, July 4, 2006 "A shameful debate" on Iraq (Trudy Rubin)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What will happen if the US abandons Iraq? (Trudy Rubin via Norman Geras)
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 What is Muqtada al-Sadr's game?
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Ku Klux Klan & neo-Nazis rally against Iraq war
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Kurdistan: Birth of a nation? (Patrick Cockburn)
Monday, July 10, 2006 What happened to the Genocide Convention?
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 Genocide & legalism (contd.)
Monday, July 10, 2006 More bad news from Baghdad (Mark Kleiman)
Monday, July 17, 2006 Are some of Iraq's Sunni Arabs waking up to reality?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld in Iraq - "A Banana Republic Coup D'Etat" (Thomas Ricks via Belgravia Dispatch)
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Henry Farrell's correct views on war, political responsibility, & Iraq
Saturday, August 5, 2006 Fareed Zakaria & Hillary Clinton on Donald Rumsfeld
Tuesday, August 15, 2006 "Mass Murder: What Causes it? Can It be Stopped" - Some afterthoughts on the ASA forum
Saturday, August 26, 2006 Offending the right people (for the right reasons) - I agree with Noam Chomsky
Saturday, September 9, 2006 The true Iraq appeasers (Peter Galbraith)
Saturday, September 30, 2006 Bob Woodward abandons the sinking ship?
Thursday, October 5, 2006 Woodward the weather vane (Jacob Weisberg)
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 A Manifesto for American Liberalism - Todd Gitlin & Bruce Ackerman
Friday, November 10, 2006 What Democrats should do now on foreign policy (Suzanne Nossel)
Friday, December 1, 2006 Iraq - Realism and "Realism" (George Packer)
Saturday, December 30, 2006 Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006 (David Hirst)
Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Zarqawi - Man of the Year for 2006? (Andrew Sullivan)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Some dissenting thoughts on Gerald Ford (Sisyphus)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Michael Young reflects on Saddam Hussein, his victims, and Arab politics (Beirut Daily Star)
Thursday, January 4, 2007 Saddam's end - "Justice, but No Reckoning" (Najmaldin Karim)
Friday, January 5, 2007 Time to revive "Kurd Sellout Watch"?
Friday, January 5, 2007 Getting serious about Iraq - too late? (Juan Cole)
Monday, January 15, 2007 Some unhappy thoughts on options in Iraq (which all look scary)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 'The jihad now is against the Shias, not the Americans' (Guardian)
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 Inside Baghdad's civil war (contd.)
Monday, January 29, 2007 Who has been murdering Iraqi civilians? - A reminder of the obvious
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Is Saudi Arabia using the price of oil to pressure Iran?
Sunday, March 11, 2007 Panel discussion on Iraq - Saturday, March 17, 2007 (Eastern Sociological Society)
posted by Jeff Weintraub at 4:00 PM
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