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(Re-) Creating Anbar's Awakening

Gabriel Ledeen | Posted 04.27.2009 | World

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Gabriel Ledeen

Describing the Anbar Awakening movement as a miraculous Sunni uprising blinds us to the lessons we ought to have learned.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Maritime Law, Naval Standoff, Brussels, US Troops, Israel Lobby, Pakistan, World Bank, Pakistan Protests, China, Chas Freeman, Iran, Nato, Economic Cooperation Organization Summit, Mauritania, Us, Zardari, Embassy, Morocco, Missle Launch, Fatah, Palestine, Hamas, Suicide Bombs, Satellite, Biden, Anbar, Ahmadinejad, Cairo, Sunni Insurgency, Afghanistan, Palestinian Unity Talks, Iraq, Prisoner Swap, Pullout, North Korea, Icbm, Fayyad, Foreign Affairs Roundup, Foreign Policy, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Pakistan: Yet Another Path to Failure Facts: Pakistan's government arrests hundreds of "dissidents" includi...

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Reading The Pictures: 4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Iraq, Zoriah Miller, War Fatalities, Photographs, Cristoph Bangert, Military, Fallujah, Michael Kamber, Ashley Gilbertson, U.S. Soldiers, Dover, Anbar, Casualties, Censorship, Media News
Michael Shaw

2008-07-28-shaw_727.jpgThe military has been so effective in muting the war, and the war photographer, that many of our best shooters have found themselves turning to the technique of irony.

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Not a Gaffe: A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Iraq

Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Iraq, Anbar, Sunni, John McCain Gaffe, Sunni Awakening, Mccain Gaffe Surge, Mccain Surge Gaffe, Cbs Edited Mccain Gaffe, Couric Mccain Gaffe, Politics News
Ilan Goldenberg

This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.

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US Trophy Province Anbar Losing Its Shine

Reuters | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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Tensions are simmering again in once bloody Anbar province, Washington's prize good news story for security in Iraq. Along the main road through Anba...

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Will Iraq's Great Awakening Lead To A Nightmare?

Mother Jones | Douglas Macgregor | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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U.S. casualties are down in Iraq. But a retired Army Colonel argues that the surge and American payoffs to Sunni tribal leaders may eventually backfir...

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