Epstein Secrets

ty. Washington has urged the country's factions to work together toward forging a new government that would see the country's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki step aside. "A united Iraq is a stronger Iraq," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters last week. But Iraq's parliament failed to re

s continued across the country as Iraq's Shiite-dominated armed forces, with the help of Shiite militias, struggled to recapture territory seized by the Islamic State. Last week on Friday, the army reclaimed control of Saddam Hussein's birthplace of Awja, a Sunni Arab stronghold north of Baghdad, the Iraqi armed

er or later, honest liberals will have to admit that Obama's Iraq policy has been a disaster. Since the president took office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has grown ever more tyrannical and ever more sectarian, driving his country's Sunnis toward revolt. Since Obama took office, Iraq watchers—includin

d with what the Israeli analyst Orit Perlov describes as the two dominant Arab governing models: ISIS and SISI. EFTA00665418 ISIS, of course, is the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the bloodthirsty Sunni militia that has gouged out a new state from Sunni areas in Syria and Iraq. SISI, of course, is Abdel Fat

http://topics.wsj.com/person/O/Obama/4328> administration. The U.S. is weighing more direct military assis=ance to the government of Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki, the White House said Thursday, and officials hinted that =id might include airstrikes on militants who have edged to within a half-h=ur's drive of

ica's overseas wars. Yet as much as he w=nted Iraq in the rearview mirror, the swift march toward Baghdad by Islami=t extremists calling themselves the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or IS=S, has forced him to reconsider his approach. As much as he wanted to leave the fate of Iraq to the Iraqis the=selves, he c