Month: November 2006

Steve Clemons and U.S./Saudi Relationship

I’m still struggling to come to grips with Nawaf Obaid’s editorial today, where he suggests that Saudi Arabia will take the fight to the Shi’a in Iraq if we pull out. Obaid makes three suggestions. The Saudis...

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Why Iraq is not in a civil war

I’m going to run against the conventional wisdom on this one. Iraq is not in the midst of a civil war. “Sectarian violence” doesn’t describe it well, either. I’m not sure that there is a good term...

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