CSIS has released a new report you can view and download it here. The report deals with the issue of how the US can make the best of the situation in Iraq, whether the country “goes bad” (civil war) or not. From the Executive Summary: This paper argues that US success in Iraq is too …
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Iraq Political Groups call for Delay of Election
Some breaking news from the BBC reports that two major Kurdish political parties and a few others are calling for a delay of the Election originally schedule on January 30. This is in addition to the threatened boycott by Sunni Arab parties. I guess we’ll find out more in the coming days and weeks before …
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US Trade war heats up
Update 1The BBC has more on the various countries involved in the dispute. Here’s the BBC Report. — Things took a turn for the worse today in the ongoing, and varied, trade wars between various countries and the US. The WTO has ruled that some US anti-dumping laws (the Byrd Amendment in particular) are illegal. …