The Iraqi congress O.K.’d a resolution yesterday to force Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to consort with them before asking the United Nations to extend the mandate for American-led forces in their country.
The resolution, drafted by lawmakers within the coalition of vitriolic Shi’i cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s, doesn’t ring as true as some might think: Of the [...]
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Iraqi parliament wants say in future of U.S. troops
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Want Stability in the Middle East? Move the U.N. to…
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Iraq. More specifically, Saddam’s 600-room palace built on the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian palace.
That’s what an academic and a U.S. military officer argue in this PostGlobal piece.
The move solves several problems. First, the U.S. is manipulated by/manipulates the U.N. due to its geographic location camps are both silenced. Second, “If the U.S. should be forced [...]
