IRAQI POLITICS:  MEDIA REPORTS OF A SUPPOSEDLY ERODING SUPPORT BASE FOR IRAQ'S PREMIER NOURI AL-MALIKI -- CURRENT TALK OF A NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE AGAINST THE PREMIER -- AL-MALIKI FACING A COALITION OF FOUR MAJOR POLITICAL BLOCS IN A CONFRONTATION THAT COULD BRING DOWN HIS GOVERNMENT & PRODUCE A NEW INTERIM PREMIER -- WHAT THE MEDIA REPORTS OVERLOOK:  INTERNAL DIVISIONS AMONG THE FACTIONS OF AL-MALIKI'S OPPONENTS -- CONCESSIONS MADE BY PRIME MINISTER AL-MALIKI -- THE UNLIKELYHOOD THAT A PROPOSED VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE AGAINST THE PM COULD OBTAIN THE ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT REQUIRED TO PASS THE MOTION

THE WISEST & MOST HUMANE COURSE OF ACTION FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TO FOLLOW IN RELOCATING MEMBERS OF THE MUJAHEDEEN-E KHALQ IN A NEW HOME, IN A SAFER & LESS HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, OUTSIDE OF BOTH IRAQ & IRAN -- ABANDONMENT OF THE MEK, THE ORGANIZATION MOST FEARED BY THE TYRANTS IN TEHRAN, IS NOT A VIABLE FOREIGN POLICY OPTION FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES.

U.S. MILITARY POLICY IN IRAQ:  WILL U.S. TROOPS REMAIN IN IRAQ AFTER THE END OF 2011?  THE IRAQIS' DESIRE FOR FURTHER AMERICAN TRAINING OF IRAQI SECURITY FORCES -- THE IRAQI MILITARY SEEN AS INCAPABLE OF DEFENDING THE COUNTRY FROM FOREIGN THREATS -- LACK OF IRAQI KNOW-HOW ON THE USE OF ADVANCE D WEAPONRY, SUCH AS FIGHTER JETS, WHICH THE MILITARY HAS BEEN PURCHASING -- NEGOTIATIONS BEING CARRIED ON BETWEEN THE U.S. & IRAQI GOVERNMENTS ON KEEPING AMERICAN MILITARY TRAINERS IN IRAQ AFTER THE DECEMBER 31, 2011, DEADLINE FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL

LIBYA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, & OBAMA MYOPIA:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S CLUELESS & OVER-CONFIDENT STATEMENTS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION -- OBAMA'S PHONY CLAIMS OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY SUCCESSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- HIS FAILURE TO GUARD HIS TONGUE & EXERCISE CAUTION -- WHAT WILL PROBABLY GO WRONG IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHY OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL SOON RUE THE PRESIDENT'S RASH BOASTS -- POLITICAL PROBLEMS AHEAD FOR OBAMA & THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- THE POLITICAL LEFT & THE ELECTORAL DISASTER IT IS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE IN THE 2012 FEDERAL ELECTIONS & IN SUBSEQUENT U.S. ELECTIONS

THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ:  SHOULD U.S. TROOPS BE KEPT IN IRAQ BEYOND THE ORIGINAL WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE OF DECEMBER 31, 2011? THE VIEW OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON PANETTA -- THE VIEW OF SENIOR U.S. MILITARY FIGURES -- THE LATTER VIEW BASED ON FOUR LINES OF ARGUMENT THAT ULTIMATELY DO NOT STAND UP TO SCRUTINY

THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR IV ON THE AMERICAN NATION:  A NEW KIND OF ENEMY & MAJOR CHANGES IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY -- RESTRUCTURING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ENABLE IT TO EFFECTIVELY COPE WITH THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE U.S.A. WITH NEW COALITIONS & NEW PARTNERS IN THE ARENA OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- U.S. MILITARY FORCES EVOLVING TO DEAL WITH THE CHANGED GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD AT LARGE -- THE 9/11 ATTACKS, TRANFORMATION OF THE U.S.A., & THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ISLAMIC WORLD: LACK OF ANY KIND OF COHESIVE POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST, REFLECTING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF THAT REGION OF THE WORLD & THE FORCES AT WORK WITHIN IT -- WHAT AMERICA SHOULD DO TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM THE MIDDLE EASTERN MESS

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:  NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION & THE IMPORTANCE OF U.S. MILITARY READINESS TO COPE WITH THE THREAT -- MUAMMAR QADDAFI'S ULTIMATE CAPITULATION TO THE U.S.A. ON THE MATTER OF LIBYA'S SEEKING TO ACQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPONRY -- THE INTRANSIGENCE OF IRAN'S MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, WHO IS PRESSING FORWARD IN HIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WITH NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER OF ARRIVING AT A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT ON THE MATTER WITH THE U.S.A. -- U.S. SUCCESS IN GETTING LIBYA TO TERMINATE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM & U.S. FAILURE TO PERSUADE IRAN TO DO LIKEWISE -- THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BASED ON STRENGTH & PRINCIPLE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MIRED IN BLIND IDEALISM & WEAKNESS

MEDIA DISTORTION ABOUT ISRAEL:  THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MISLEADS, EVEN AS IT INFORMS ON THE SUBJECT OF ISRAEL. *** THE ARAB WORLD & INNOVATION IN TERRORISM:  THE AREA WHERE ARABS SEEM MOST ADEPT AT INNOVATION IS TERRORISM. AIRPLANE HIJACKINGS, SUICIDE BOMBINGS, & MEGA-TERRORISM ARE AMONG THEIR CLAIMS TO ORIGINALITY.

HOW THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT DESTROYED A STABILIZING ANTI-ISLAMIST FORCE IN IRAQ & THEREBY SERIOUSLY JEPORDIZED IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY:  THE DISBANDING OF THE PREDOMINANTLY SUNNI POPULAR SOCIAL MOVEMENT, THE "SONS OF IRAQ," WHICH HAD BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TURNING THE TIDE AGAINST AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ DURING 2007-2008, & THE DECISION TO INCORPORATE SOI MEMBERS INTO MINISTRIES, RATHER THAN THE IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, HAS LEFT A DANGEROUS SECURITY VACUUM IN IRAQ.

OIL PRODUCTION IN IRAQ:  CONTINUING DECLINE OF IRAQ'S OIL INDUSTRY -- DROPPING GOVERNMENT REVENUE FROM PETROLEUM -- OBSTACLES TO IRAQ'S ATTRACTING THE INVESTMENT NEEDED TO DEVELOP ITS OIL INDUSTRY -- WHAT THE IRAQI POLITICAL ELITE SHOULD DO IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT IRAQ HAS A BETTER ECONOMIC FUTURE

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE IRAQ WAR IN 2003:  THE ABSURD THESIS OF JUAN COLE REGARDING BUSH ADMINISTRATION DECISION-MAKING BETWEEN THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A. & THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION OF IRAQ ON MARCH 20, 2003 -- EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE SINCERELY BELIEVED THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S BAATHIST REGIME HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & THEREFORE POSED A POTENTIAL THREAT TO THE STABILITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST REGION -- COLE'S BASELESS CONTENTION THAT THE DRIVE TOWARD WAR WITH IRAQ WAS MAINLY THE WORK OF U.S. OFFICIALS WHO WERE PART OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION -- THE LESSONS THAT WESTERN GOVERNMENTS & INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SHOULD DRAW FROM MORE RECENTLY EMERGING EVIDENCE RELATING TO GOVERNMENTAL DECISION-MAKING IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE IRAQ WAR

A FAILED U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SPENDING OF $53 BILLION IN AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY ON RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ -- THE IRAQI ECONOMY & THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF IRAQ'S GROWING RELIANCE ON OIL FOR INCOME -- INABILITY OF THE PRESENT IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN ALLEVIATING IRAQ'S PROBLEM OF LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT -- THE MASSIVE CORRUPTION & INEFFICIENT BUREAUCRACY THAT HINDER EXECUTION OF ANY MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION PLANS -- LACK OF SKILLED WORKERS TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE U.S.-FUNDED RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE FOREIGN POLICY FAILURE & MONUMENTAL WASTE OF U.S. MONEY:  THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S PURSUIT OF THE FANTASY OF A FREE, STABLE, DEMOCRATIC, & ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS IRAQ

WHAT BODES FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE, IN TERMS OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE OTHER STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  THE MIDDLE EASTERN COLD WAR -- THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DIVISION IN THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN THE "REVOLUTIONARY BLOC" & THE "STATUS-QUO BLOC" -- SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN JOSTLING FOR INFLUENCE IN IRAQ -- THE POSSIBILITY OF IRAQ SOON EMERGING AS A THEATER OF PROXY WARFARE BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN

HOW THE IRAQI POLITICAL SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY OPERATING UNDER IRAQ'S CONSTITUTION:  IS U.S. CYNICISM ABOUT IRAQI CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY WARRANTED?  THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN IRAQ -- WHY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT INTERFERING IN IRAQI JUDICIAL MATTERS -- THE REVISED ELECTORAL SYSTEM & THE TREND TOWARD GREATER POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN IRAQ -- THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD IRAQ & IRAQI POLITICS

SYRIA AS A LONG-STANDING STATE SPONSOR OF ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE ROLE OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IN ASSISTING & FACILITATING ISLAMIST TERRORIST ACTIVITY & THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- SOPHISTICATED NETWORKS ESTABLISHED BY TERRORISTS & INSURGENTS TO FACILITATE THE MOVEMENT OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD TO & THROUGH SYRIA, & INTO IRAQ -- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR SYRIA & IRAQ -- BENEFITS TO SYRIA -- NEGATIVES FOR SYRIA -- AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ & THE ZARQAWI NRTWORK -- BENEFITS TO AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ -- SHUTING DOWN THE NETWORKS & STARVING THE INSURGENCY OF ITS SUPPLY OF MATERIEL, FUNDS, & MANPOWER

THE WRITINGS OF T. E. LAWRENCE ON WESTERN MILITARY STRATEGY IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST & THE RELEVANCE OF THESE WRITINGS TO THE CURRENT U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ:  THE INFLUENCE THAT LAWRENCE'S WRITINGS HAVE HAD ON THE REFORMS ADOPTED & IMPLEMENTED SINCE GENERAL DAVID HOWELL PETRAEUS WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF U.S. & ALLIED MILITARY FORCES IN IRAQ -- HOW THE STRATEGIC THINKING OF A FAMOUS & LONG-DEAD WORLD WAR I BRITISH ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL IS INFLNCING THE CONTEMPORARY MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

AL-QA'IDA & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD:  THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR THAT AL-QA'IDA HAS BEEN WAGING DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES -- AL-QA'IDA'S LONGTERM WAR AIMS -- PROBLEMS THAT THE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS ARE CREATING FOR AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA -- BARRIERS HINDERING U.S. INTELLIGENCE WORK IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- OBSTACLES TO U.S.-ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION

SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS

COUNTERINSURGENCY & CONVENTIONAL WARFARE:  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE & ITS AGENCIES PREVAIL IN A COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR WAGED AGAINST A NONSTATE ENEMY?  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND ITSELF & ITS VITAL INTERESTS AGAINST INSURGENCY & TERRORISM?

THE U.S.A. & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY -- ISRAEL'S SAFETY & SECURITY AS A FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN INTEREST -- ISLAMIC TERRORISM, ITS CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES, & THE THREAT IT POSES TO AMERICA & THE WEST -- THE AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ -- THE BUSH DOCTRINE -- SERIOUS FLAWS IN KENNETH POLLACK'S ANALYSIS: UNDERPLAYING THE IMPORTANCE OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY AS A CAUSE OF TERRORISM & POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- FAILURE TO ADDRESS HOW TO REFORM THE BLOATED & INEFFECTIVE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT BUREAUCRACY & ITS COUNTERPARTS IN THE UNITED NATIONS & OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUREAUCRACIES WHICH IMPEDED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM

U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY FORMULATION DURING THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:   SOME OF THE THOUGHTS DEVELOPED BY U.S. POLICYMAKERS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. -- DEVELOPMENT OF A DEFENSIVE & OFFENSIVE STRATEGY FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE WAR AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK & THE STATES SUPPORTING THE NETWORK -- THE AL-QA'IDA-IRAQ CONNECTION & THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE & THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -- HOW THE CIA & THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE, LEAKED INFORMATION, SHAPED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S CONCEPTION OF THE IRAQ WAR, & UNDERMINED POPULAR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR -- A VERY COSTLY ERROR IN IRAQ -- THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IN IRAQ

ANTI-REGIME IRANIANS & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROTECT THE MUJAHEDEEN-E KHALQ & ITS MEMBERS -- AMERICA'S NEED FOR ALLIES IN ITS CONFLICT WITH THE ISLAMIST REGIME IN IRAN -- THE OBLIGATION OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO STICK BY & PROTECT SUCH ALLIES

PARLIAMENTARY CONSIDERATION OF A LAW TO GOVERN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS IN IRAQ:  PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE OVER HOW IRAQIS SHOULD ELECT THEIR PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS:  GEOGRAPHIC CONSTITUENY-BASED ELECTIONS, OR A PARTY-SLATE ELECTION SYSTEM IN EACH PROVINCE?  EFFECTIVE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL STABILITY, THE RULE OF LAW, & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER LAW WILL VERY MUCH DEPEND ON WHAT PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT DECIDES TO PASS

IRAQ & THE U.S.A.:  SHOULD ANY PROPOSED U.S. SECURITY COMMITMENT TO IRAQ CONSTITUTE A TREATY BETWEEN IRAQ & THE U.S.A., REQUIRING RATIFICATION BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE IN THE U.S. SENATE?  THE ANSWER DEPENDS UPON THE CONTENTS OF THE AGREEMENT.  ANY LANGUAGE COMMITTING U.S. MILITARY FORCES TO DEFEND IRAQ AGAINST AN EXTERNAL THREAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE AGREEMENT INTO A TREATY, SUBJECT TO U.S. SENATE RATIFICATION

IRAQI KURDISTAN & THE U.S.A.:  THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE IRAQI KURDS AS A U.S. ALLY -- OBSTACLES TO SUCH AN ALLIANCE:  UNSTABLE, CORRUPT, AUTHORITARIAN, & DOUBLE-DEALING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN IRAQI KURDISTAN, THE CORROSIVE IDEOLOGIES OF ISLAMISM & EXTREME NATIONALISM, PKK TERRORISM, IRANIAN INFILTRATION; THE LONG-STANDING U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONSHIP; AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SECURITY & STABILITY IN IRAQ:  THE MILITARY PRESENCE OF THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES IN IRAQ -- THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST THAT THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL GRANT A ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE UN MANDATE FOR THE UNITED STATES-LED MULTINATIONAL FORCES IN IRAQ -- THE DANGER OF AMERICAN POLITICIANS SECOND-GUESSING THE ELECTED IRAQI GOVERNMENT ON THIS MATTER -- THE DANGER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS ATTEMPTING TO MICROMANAGE THE IRAQI POLITICAL PROCESS -- WHAT WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE POSSIBLE A U.S. MILITARY DRAW DOWN IN IRAQ, WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING IRAQI SECURITY & STABILITY

CONFRONTING THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEM OF IRAQ:  WHY THE MIDDLE EAST HAS REMAINED A STAGNANT SINKHOLE FOR CENTURIES, RESISTANT TO CHANGE, ARMORED AGAINST RATIONAL BEHAVIOR, & CHAINED TO BARBARISM -- ISLAM AS THE REAL PROBLEM OF IRAQ & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAMIC FANATICISM & INTOLERANCE AS THE FORCE WHICH DESTROYED IRAQ IN THE WAKE OF THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION -- HUMAN NATURE, ISLAMIC CULTURE, & THE POWER OF FIERCELY HELD NOTIONS OF RELIGION, MORALITY, & HONOR

ALIREZA JAFARZADEH ON THE IRANIAN THREAT, IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, THE COMING NUCLEAR CRISIS, & HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF IRAN:  A REPORT ON JAFARZADEH'S BRIEFING REGARDING THE IRANIAN THREAT & HIS NEW BOOK -- IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, ITS GOAL OF IMPOSING GLOBAL ISLAMIC RULE, & THE PROXY WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST U.S. FORCES IN IRAQ -- THE BEST POLICY OPTION FOR THE U.S.A. IN DEALING WITH THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME -- THE FUTILITY & OUTRIGHT DANGER OF TALKS HELD BETWEEN U.S. OFFICIALS & THEIR IRANIAN COUNTERPARTS -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE IRANIAN REGIME'S INFLUENCE ON IRAQI POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

THE IRAQI SITUATION & THE WAR ON TERRORISM:  AMERICA'S MORAL & STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE IN IRAQ -- HELPING IRAQ DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS & EXTREMISTS WHO THREATEN THE COUNTRY'S FUTURE -- THE NEW STRATEGY IN IRAQ -- THE SURGE IN UNITED STATES FORCES & THE SERIES OF OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS TO DRIVE THE TERRORISTS & MILITIAS OUT OF THEIR STRONGHOLDS -- OVERTURNING & DESTROYING THE TALIBAN-LIKE, TYRANNICAL RULE OF AL-QA'IDA -- THE EVOLVING MISSION OF THE U.S.A. IN IRAQ -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCCESS IN IRAQ & AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY

ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING THE INSURGENCY & TERRORISM IN IRAQ & ESTABLISHING & MAINTAINING LONGTERM STABILITY IN THAT COUNTRY -- THE MILITARY COMPONENT:   CONTINUING THE "SURGE" & KEEPING THE ADDITIONAL COALITION TROOPS IN PLACE FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME;  THE POLITICAL COMPONENT:  A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION & COUNTER-PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POSSIBLE EFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY SEGMENTS OF THE IRAQI POPULATION -- WHAT IS MOST LACKING IN COALITION STRATEGY:  A SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOR TO COUNTER ENEMY PROPAGANDA, EITHER RESPONDING RAPIDLY WITH EFFECTIVE COUNTER MESSAGES OR PROACTIVELY CHALLENGING THE MESSAGES, METHODS, & IDEOLOGY THAT THE INSURGENTS & MUSLIM EXTREMISTS PROMOTE & EXPLOIT

OPERATION PHANTOM THUNDER:  THE LARGEST COORDINATED MILITARY OPERATION IN IRAQ SINCE THE U.S. INVASION IN 2003 -- THE SURGE IN DEPLOYMENT OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN SUPPORT OF THE ENDEAVOR TO DISRUPT & DESTROY ISLAMIST TERRORIST BASES & NETWORKS THROUGHOUT IRAQ -- SHOULD THE SURGE & OPERATION CONTINUE, OR SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CHANGE COURSE?  ENUMERATION & EVALUATION OF THE POLICY OPTIONS

THE RELEVANCE OF IRAQI NATIONAL CULTURE & IDENTITY TO IRAQI POLITICS & GOVERNANCE:  BEDOUIN CULTURE AS THE BEDROCK OF IRAQI SOCIETY -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEDOUIN CULTURE & PREVAILING CONDITIONS OF VIOLENCE & POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN IRAQ -- IRAQI CULTURAL LIFE UNDER THE POLITICAL REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN -- CULTURAL TRENDS SINCE THE FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN -- THE PARADOX PRESENTED BY IRAQI CULTURE

THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAQI KURDISTAN: AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICAL INSTABILITY -- PROSPECTS FOR ESTABLISHING THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY ERODED BY A GROWING CULTURE OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, & ABUSE OF POWER -- THE ENTRENCHED POLITICAL PARTIES & THEIR CREATION OF A SYSTEM WHICH IMMUNIZES THEM FROM ACCOUNTABILITY & COMPETITION -- ABSENCE OF INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS & MEDIA OUTLETS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING A CHECK UPON ABUSE OF POWER -- PARTISAN POLITICAL MANIPULATION & CONTROL OF THE SECURITY FORCES -- THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN ENABLING AUTHORITARIANISM & TYRANNY IN THE KURDISTAN REGION

TERRORISM, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE, & U.S. MILITARY PLANNING:  THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY & ASYMMETRY -- U.S. MILITARY HISTORY & ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE -- TERRORISM & PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS -- THE VULNERABILITY OF DEMOCRACIES TO TERRORISM -- THE THEORY THAT THERE HAS BEEN A REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS -- THE THREAT POSED BY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE & THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION WARFARE -- PREEMPTION, MULTILATERALISM, & DIPLOMACY -- FLEXIBILITY IN INTERPRETING INTERNATIONAL NORMS & THE LAWS OF WARFARE

WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY DEFINING THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ AS A CIVIL WAR?  WHAT PARADIGM SHIFT IN UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT WOULD BE REQUIRED?  WHAT IMPORTANT AMERICAN STRATEGIC INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE?  IF IRAQ IS EMBROILED IN A SECTARIAN CIVIL WAR BETWEEN SHI'ITES & SUNNIS, SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SHI'ITE PARTIES OR A SHI'ITE-DOMINATED IRAQI GOVERNMENT?  WOULD AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & IRAQI SUNNI ARABS BE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST?  SHOULD U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ CONTINUE, OR SHOULD U.S. & COALITION TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN?

MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE IN THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & IN THE SUBSEQUENT ENDEAVOR TO BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  WHAT AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS FAILED TO FORESEE AS CONSEQUENCES OF THE INVASION & OCCUPATION -- WHAT THEY FAILED TO COMPREHEND ABOUT IRAQ & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE CURRENT CHAOTIC SITUATION IN IRAQ -- ALAN CARUBA'S ARGUMENT THAT AMERICA SHOULD WITHDRAW ITS MILITARY FORCE FROM IRAQ & LET THE IRAQIS DEAL WITH THE CHAOS

THE MIDDLE EAST, ISLAMISM, & THE TERROR WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST: FACING A DEADLY ENEMY DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST MUST BE DESTROYED -- FIGHTING THE JIHADIST ENEMY AT HOME & ABROAD -- WHY THE AMERICAN HOMELAND IS VULNERABLE TO FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF TROOPS WE HAVE IN IRAQ -- RELEVANCE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & OPEN BORDERS TO THE CONTINUING VULNERABILITY OF THE U.S.A. TO TERRORIST ATTACKS -- THE FUTILITY OF EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN IRAQ & BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA:  HOW THE U.S.A. HAS APPLIED ITS POWER MILITARILY & THROUGH THE TRADECRAFT OF SPYING -- A STRING OF BLUNDERS & FAILURES UNDERMINING THE POLITICAL CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES & SUSTAINS EFFECTIVE U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- THE FAILURE OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS TO LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST

VIEWING THE U.S. INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AS ONE BATTLE IN A LONG WAR: ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT IT IS TIME FOR A STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ, THAT WE NEED TO BRING OUR MILITARY FORCES HOME IN ORDER TO RETRAIN, REBUILD, RE-EQUIP, & EXPAND THEM TO MEET THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD IN THE LONG WAR WITH ISLAMISM

THE MIDDLE EAST:  ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE -- THE ORIGIN OF MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL TRADITIONS & STRUCTURES -- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT & MODERN GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AUTHORITARIAN RULE OF CENTRALIZED STATE GOVERNMENT & THE COUNTERVAILING POWER OF LOCAL ENTITIES -- THE CONTEMPORARY BATTLE BETWEEN EXCLUSIONARY & CONSENSUAL GOVERNING SYSTEMS

THE BARZANI FAMILY:  KURDISH POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL TREACHERY, & KURDISH NATIONALISM -- SWITCHING ALLIANCES AS PART OF THE BARZANI FAMILY POLITICAL CULTURE -- MASOUD BARZANI AS AN EXTREMELY UNREALIABLE ALLY OF THE U.S.A.

IRAQ, IRAQI KURDISTAN, ETHNIC FEDERALISM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. SUPPORT FOR KURDISH NATIONALISM & ITS DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT AN INDEPENDENT & UNITED KURDISTAN -- THE KURDISH NATIONALIST DRIVE & ITS THREAT TO TURKEY'S NATIONAL SECURITY & TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

RECENT BOOKS ABOUT IRAQ, THE IRAQ WAR, IRAQI POLITICS, CULTURE & SOCIETY, & UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ:  SEPARATING THE GOOD BOOKS FROM THE BAD BOOKS -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SOUND ANALYSIS & FLAWED ANALYSIS

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, ISLAMISM & THE ISLAMIC WORLD, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHAT THE U.S.A. MUST DO IN ORDER TO MORE EFFECTIVELY HELP PROTECT WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM WAGING WAR & STEP BACK TO DETERMINE WHAT THE NEXT CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION SHOULD BE

IRAQ & THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION:  MISSION ACCOMPLISHED; TIME TO DEPART -- THE ARGUMENT THAT, SINCE THE U.S.A. HAS SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM POWER & HAS DONE ALL IT COULD TO ASSIST THE IRAQIS IN ESTABLISHING A STABLE GOVERNMENT & A NEW ARMY & POLICE FORCE, U.S. MILITARY FORCES & THOSE OF OUR COALITION ALLIES SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ SWIFTLY, BUT DECIDEDLY -- IF THE IRAQIS PROVE UNWILLING TO OPERATE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT & INSIST ON WAGING A CIVIL WAR TO DETERMINE WHO CONTROLS IRAQ, THEN LET THE SUNNIS, SHIITES, & KURDS FIGHT IT OUT & KILL EACH OTHER OFF -- IF THE ENSUING REGIONAL CONFLICT EXHAUSTS OR DESTROYS ISLAM'S MILITARISTIC INTENTION TO DOMINATE THE ENTIRE GLOBE, AMERICA & THE WEST WILL BE THE ULTIMATE WINNERS

KIRKUK'S FINAL STATUS & THE FUTURE OF IRAQ:  KIRKUK AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF IRAQI KURDISTAN -- THE ARGUMENT THAT THE POPULATION OF KIRKUK IS PREDOMINANTLY KURDISH & THE CITY & ITS ENVIRONS SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

KIRKUK & IRAQ'S FUTURE:  THE QUESTION OF KIRKUK'S FINAL STATUS AS ONE OF THE MOST SENSITIVE ISSUES REGARDING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ -- UNDERSTANDING THE TURKOMAN CLAIM TO KIRKUK ESSENTIAL TO DEFUSING A POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE PROBLEM -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO ENSURE PEACE & STABILITY IN KIRKUK:  THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY & THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF TURKOMANS NOW THREATENED BY BOTH KURDISH EXPANSIONISM & THE INTOLERANCE BY SOME FACTIONS OF IRAQ'S CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS & THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:   THE POST-INVASION MESS IN IRAQ AS A FAILURE OF COMPETENCY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT -- FAILURE OF THE U.S. WHITE HOUSE & DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO PROVIDE EITHER SUFFICIENT MANPOWER OR PLANNING FOR THE POST-INVASION PERIOD -- WILL THE U.S.A. ASSUME THE OBLIGATION OF PROVIDING THE LEADERSHIP & GREATER PORTION OF RESOURCES NECESSARY TO WIN THE WAR AGASINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM & THEREBY PROTECT & PRESERVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION? WILL THE U.S. ARMED FORCES BE EXPANDED ENOUGH TO ENABLE AMERICA TO EFFECTIVELY FULFILL THIS OBLIGATION? THESE ARE DECISIONS THAT THE U.S. CONGRESS MUST MAKE, &, ON SUCH DECISIONS, HINGE MUCH OF THE FUTURE AT HOME & ABROAD

ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ITS IMPACT ON UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW SUICIDE BOMBING HAS FORCED THE U.S.A. TO REEVALUATE ITS STRATEGIC GOALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRATEGIC REASON WHY THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES ATTACKED & INVADED IRAQ -- THE NEED TO PROTECT THE WEST'S ACCESS TO MIDDLE EASTERN OIL RESERVES -- FINDING THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FORCES COMPETING FOR HEGEMONY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE CURRENT SITUATION IN IRAQ -- REASONS:  WATERSHED DECISIONS & THEIR OUTCOMES -- FUNDAMENTAL ALTERATION OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ & OF DEBATE OVER THAT POLICY -- PREWAR MILITARY & POLITICAL PLANNING -- POST-LIBERATION DECISION-MAKING -- THE BAKER-HAMILTON COMMISSION & ITS EXPECTED RECOMMENDATIONS -- MISTAKES IN ANALYSIS -- LOOKING BACK & MOVING FORWARD

WHAT WENT WRONG IN IRAQ?  ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF POOR DECISIONS BY U.S. POLICYMAKERS -- IRAQ'S TRANSFORMATION INTO A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY UNDERCUT BY U.S. RELIANCE ON DIPLOMACY, FAILURE TO SECURE IRAQ'S BORDERS, APPEASEMENT OF FRANCE, GERMANY & THE UNITED NATIONS, & CREATION OF AN IRAQI ELECTORAL SYSTEM THAT ENCOURAGES ETHNIC & SECTARIAN CONFLICT

ESTABLISHING A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ -- WHAT IS NEEDED:  A LONGTERM DEMOCRATIZATION STRATEGY -- A CHANGE IN FOREIGN AID POLICY -- TERMINATION OF U.S. SUBSIDIES TO THE CORRUPT IRAQI CENTRAL GOVERNMENT -- PROMOTION OF LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BY REDIRECTING U.S. FINANCIAL AID THROUGH THE U.S. MILITARY TO IRAQ'S MUNICIPALITIES -- FOCUS UPON ASSISTING LOCAL GOVERNMENTS RUN BY DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED & ACCOUNTABLE CITY & TOWN COUNCILS

"REALISM," IDEOLOGY, & THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TURN TO THE "REALISTS" & THEIR WEAK, SHORTSIGHTED APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- RESURRECTION OF FOREIGN POLICY "REALISM," WHICH PROMOTES SHORTTERM GAIN, OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF LONGTERM SECURITY -- EMBRACING A FOREIGN POLICY THAT DISCOUNTS THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVERSARIES' IDEOLOGIES & THE NEED FOR LONGTERM STRATEGIES -- FAILURE TO CONSIDER THE LESSONS OF HISTORY & THE COST OF ABANDONING PRINCIPLE -- WEAKENING U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ & AMERICA'S DEFENSE IN THE TERROR WAR

PETROLEUM, AMERICA'S ENERGY NEEDS, & U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WORLD'S OIL SUPPLY & UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ -- THE RELEVANCE OF OIL TO THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- POLITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS & THEIR PIPEDREAMS ABOUT ALTERNATIVE MOTOR FUELS, HYBRID CARS, & SHARPLY REDUCING AMERICA'S DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EASTERN OIL -- "ENVIRONMENTALLY CORRECT" NOTIONS ABOUT FIGHTING ISLAMIST TERRORISM BY WEAKENING THE ROLE OF OIL IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & WORLD TRADE

AMERICAN POLITICS & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  PARTISAN POLITICS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, & THE FUTURE OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ -- VICTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE NOVEMBER U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS SIGNIFIES THE IMPENDING TAKEOVER OF CONTROL OF MAJOR SENATE & HOUSE COMMITTEES BY LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO MANY OF THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN NATION -- LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PUSH FOR ADOPTION OF A CUT-&-RUN POLICY IN IRAQ & TO SABOTAGE AMERICA'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- FROM CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, EXPECT OBSTRUCTION & SUBVERSION, RATHER THAN PATRIOTISM & PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ABROAD

THE WAR IN IRAQ & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  WHAT MUST BE DONE IN IRAQ TO BRING ABOUT PEACE & STABILITY:  IMPROVE LONGTERM SECURITY IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN AN ORDERLY SOCIETY, THE RULE OF LAW, & A TRULY CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM -- COUNTER THE MILITIAS THROUGH ROBUST DISRUPTION OF SUPPLY & OPERATIONS -- PRESS THE IRAQI LEGISLATURE TO ABANDON PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION & PARTY LISTS IN FAVOR OF POPULAR ACCOUNTABILITY OF DIRECTLY-ELECTED LEGISLATORS FROM GEOGRAPHIC CONSTITUENCIES

UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ:  THE FACTS IGNORED BY POLITICIANS & PUNDITS WHO CRITICIZE THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION & POLITICAL DE-BAATHIFICATION OF IRAQ & ADVOCATE APPEASEMENT OF THE SUNNI INSURGENTS THROUGH A PROGRAM OF RE-BAATHIFICATON -- WHY RE-BAATHIFICATION WILL NOT END THE TERRORISM IN IRAQ -- WHY RESTORING THE BAATHISTS TO POWER IN IRAQ WILL NEITHER PROMOTE JUSTICE FOR IRAQIS NOR BE IN INTEREST OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES

STACKING THE DECK IN THE DEBATE OVER UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ:  DESIGNING THE BAKER-HAMILTON COMMISSION TO AFFIRM PREDETERMINED RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE NEITHER NEW NOR WISE:  ABANDON THE GOAL OF ESTABLISHING A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ, SEEK POLITICAL COMPROMISE WITH SUNNI INSURGENTS, & ENGAGE IRAN & SYRIA AS PARTNERS TO SECURE PEACE & STABILITY IN IRAQ -- MASTER ISSIDE-THE-BELTWAY OPERATIVES JAMES BAKER & LEE HAMILTON SOUGHT TO STIFLE THE POLICY DEBATE, RATHER THAN PRIME IT -- MEMBERS OF THE FOUR SUBORDINATE "EXPERT" WORKING GROUPS APPOINTED LESS FOR EXPERTISE THAN THEIR HOSTILITY TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM & HIS FOCUS ON ACHIEVING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ

OIL AS THE LIFEBLOOD OF IRAQ:  OIL EXPORTS AS THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT'S GREATEST SOURCE OF REVENUE -- IRAQI OIL AS A PRIMARY COMMODITY ON THE BLACK MARKET & A CENTRAL COMPONENT OF THE WEB OF CORRUPTION, TERRORISM, & CRIMINALITY IN IRAQ -- HOW OIL SMUGGLING HAS LED TO A CONVERGENCE OF CRIME & TERRORISM THAT INCREASINGLY DESTABILIZES IRAQ

IRAQ, THE U.S.A., & IRAN:  WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE SUCCESS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN IRAQ -- DON'T TRUST IRAN, CUT THE SUPPLY LINES TO THE IRANIAN-BACKED MILITIAS, DESTROY THE IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK, REPLACE THE IRANIAN CHARITIES WITH OUR OWN PATRONAGE, & TREAT THE COMMANDERS OF IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS AS THE COMBATANTS THEY ARE -- PROJECT STRENGTH, RATHER THAN WEAKNESS, IN THE MIDDLE EAST

CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN IRAQ VIA DIVISION OF THE COUNTRY INTO THREE SEPARATE SOVEREIGN STATES -- A SUNNI STATE, A SHIITE STATE, & A KURDISH STATE:  LAYING OUT AN ARGUMENT FOR IRAQI PARTITION & KURDISH INDEPENDENCE -- THE WEAK & FLAWED ANALYSIS OF PETER GALBRAITH

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

ISLAMISM & THE TERROR WAR IN IRAQ:  THE IRAQI INSURGENCY AS AN ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S. MILITARY IN IRAQ -- THE TRUE NATURE OF THE JIHAD -- THE DANGERS FACED & HARDSHIPS ENDURED BY AMERICAN TROOPS & THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR LOVED ONES BEING MADE AWARE OF WHAT THE TROOPS ARE GOING THROUGH

IRAQIZATION OF THE DEFENSE OF IRAQ AGAINST THE JIHADISTS:  RECENTLY, HOW EFFECTIVE HAVE THE IRAQI SECURITY FORCES BEEN IN DEFENDING THE FALLUJAH AREA AGAINST THE ENEMY?  WHAT MUST BE DONE IF WE ARE ULTIMATELY TO DEFEAT THE INSUEGENTS & TERRORISTS THROUGHOUT ALL OF IRAQ?

IRAQ & THE KURDS:  THE KURDISTAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY & THE KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT -- POLITICAL CORRUPTION, TYRANNY, & REPRESSION IN IRAQI KURDISTAN:  LACK OF PRESS FREEDOM & THE FAILURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE KURDISH REGION OF IRAQ

UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ & THE MIDDLE EAST: WILL THE POLICY SUCCEED? CAN IRAQ BE TRANSFORMED INTO A PEACEFUL NATION, WITH A STABLE, FULLY FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT? CAN THE MIDDLE EAST BE "CONNECTED" TO THE MODERN WORLD? WHAT WE MUST NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF: THE BACKWARDNESS & ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF ARABS & THEIR ABILITY TO REJECT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THE MODERN COMMUNITY OF NATIONS & WORK TOWARD A MORE PEACEFUL, INTEGRATED WORLDWIDE MARKETPLACE

L. PAUL BREMER'S ADMINISTRATION & LEADERSHIP IN POSTWAR IRAQ: BREMER'S DETERMINATION TO CONCENTRATE FORMAL DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY AS NARROWLY AS POSSIBLE, HIS GLIB & CONFUSED APPROACH TOWARD ACTUALLY USING THAT AUTHORITY, HIS DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S. MILITARY, HIS DISMISSIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD THE NASCENT IRAQI LEADERSHIP, & HIS GENERAL LACK OF VISION & INSIGHT

THE ROLE OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS ELITE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS IN FURTHERING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAQ: IRAN'S SPONSORSHIP & PROMOTION OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM IN IRAQ -- TRAINING & ARMING THE BADR CORPS -- USE OF PATRONAGE, BRIBERY, & PROPAGANDA TO WIN IRAQI SUPPORTERS & UNDERMINE U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE SITUATION

AMERICA'S GOAL IN IRAQ:  AN IRAQ THAT IS A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, THAT CAN DEFEND ITSELF, THAT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE A SAFE HAVEN FOR TERRORISTS, & THAT WILL SERVE AS A MODEL OF FREEDOM FOR THE MIDDLE EAST -- HOW FAR WE HAVE COME IN IRAQ & THE PATH THAT LIES AHEAD

THE IRAQI MARCH TOWARD CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  DEMONSTRATION OF THE WISDOM OF THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES STAYING THE COURSE IN IRAQ -- IRAQI VOTERS PARTICIPATING IN DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS HOLD THEIR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS ACTIONS & POLICIES

THE GOALS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY IN IRAQ:  WINNING THE WAR ON TERRORISM, DEFEATING THE ENEMIES OF FREEDOM, HELPING THE IRAQI PEOPLE BUILD A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, SPREADING THE HOPE OF LIBERTY ACROSS THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST, GAINING NEW ALLIES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM, & LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF PEACE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME

THE TERROR WAR & THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:  THE GOALS OF UNITED STSTES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY -- PROTECTING THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS VITAL INTERESTS ABROAD -- HUNTING DOWN & ELIMINATING THE ISLAMIST TERRORISTS -- HELPING THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ TO BUILD A FREE & STABLE SOCIETY FOR THEMSELVES -- LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM IN IRAQ & THE BROADER MIDDLE EAST -- LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF WORLD PEACE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

IRAQ:  UNITED STATES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY -- AN OUTLINE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S STRATEGY FOR DEFEAT OF THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ & FOR TRANSFORMATION OF IRAQ INTO A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & AN ALLY OF THE U.S.A. IN THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM

DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH HOSTAGE-TAKING AS A TERROR TACTIC:  ESSENTIAL TO DEFEATING THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- THE ONLY WAY TO CONQUER TERROR:  SHARPLY REDUCE THE ADVANTAGE OF EMPLOYING THE TACTIC & SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE ITS COST -- APPLICATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE TO THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:  REFUSE TO RANSOM HOSTAGES, BUT CONFRONT THE HOSTAGE-TAKERS

IRAQI SOCIETY, CULTURE, & POLITICS:  AHMAD CHALABI'S SUCCESSFUL EXERTION OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE & LEADERSHIP IN POST-SADDAM IRAQ, DESPITE THE FACT THAT DISDAIN FOR CHALABI RUNS DEEP IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, & THE U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND -- FAILURE OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT & THE CIA TO ACCURATELY ASSESS THE IRAQI POLITICAL SCENE -- A SERIOUS AMERICAN HANDICAP IN IRAQ:  INABILITY TO UNDERSTAND IRAQ'S POLITICAL CULTURE, INCLUDING THE SOURCES OF POLITICAL LEGITIMACY IN IRAQ

MILITANT ISLAM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  DEFENDING AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE GLOBAL WAR THAT THE ISLAMIST JIHADISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST US -- ISLAMISM:  THE EVIL, BUT CLEAR & FOCUSED, IDEOLOGY OF THE ENEMY -- THE GOAL OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY: ESTABLISHMENT, BY TERRORISM, SUBVERSION & INSURGENCY, OF A TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE THAT DENIES ALL POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- THE CLEAR CHOICE THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS MADE:  "WE WILL CONFRONT THIS MORTAL DANGER TO ALL OF HUMANITY; WE WILL NOT TIRE UNTIL THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS WON."

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIETIES, THEIR POLITICAL HISTORY, THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS, & THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL ASIA & IN NORTH AFRICA -- IRAQ, IRAN, KURDISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, & SOUTH YEMEN

USING IRAQ TO SCORE PARTISAN POLITICAL POINTS, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE IRAQIS' NEWFOUND FREEDOMS & AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY:  SELF-SERVING CRITICISM OF UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ ON THE PART OF IDEOLOGUES, PUNDITS, POLITICIANS, & SOCALLED "SCHOLARS" WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN IN IRAQ OR OUTSIDE THE U.S. SECURITY ZONE IN IRAQ, WHO LACK ADEQUATE INFORMATION ABOUT CONDITIONS IN IRAQ, & WHO COULD NOT CARE LESS ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF THE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIVING IN IRAQ -- MISREPRESENTING THE SITUATION IN IRAQ IN ORDER TO UNDERMINE AMERICAN POPULAR SUPPORT FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION & GAIN POLITICAL MILEAGE FOR BUSH'S POLITICAL OPPONENTS --THE TRUE SITUATION IN IRAQ:  A PICTURE MUCH MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT PRESENTED BY THE NEWS MEDIA -- A BOOMING ECONOMY -- GRADUAL PROGRESS TOWARD RECONSTRUCTION & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

THE POLITICAL BIAS OF THE MAINSTREAM U.S. MEDIA & ITS DISTORTED & DESTRUCTIVE COVERAGE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED BY THE ISLAMIST JIHADISTS AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  WHOSE SIDE IS AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA ON?  IS THE MEDIA ON THE SIDE OF AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION, OR IS IT ON THE SIDE OF THE PERPETRATORS & STATE SPONSORS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM? -- WHY LEFTWING LIBERAL, ANTIWAR JOURNALISTS' COVERAGE OF AMERICAN CASUALTIES IN IRAQ IS TANTAMOUNT TO GIVING AID & COMFORT TO THE ENEMY

THE RULE OF LAW & ACCOUNTABILITY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICEHOLDERS TO THE PEOPLE THEY GOVERN:  TWO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CONCEPTS THAT ARE SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RULERS & RULED OCCURRING IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE PATH BEING PAVED FOR THE EVENTUAL ADVENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD

THE MIDDLE EAST & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ & PROSPECTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION -- ENHANCING DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WHAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD & SHOULD NOT DO

IRAQ & ITS NEW CONSTITUTION:  IRAQI POLITICS & THE RECENT CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFTING & RATIFICATION PROCESS IN IRAQ -- DEMONSTRATION BY THE IRAQIS OF THEIR DESIRE TO DETERMINE THEIR POLITICAL FUTURE THROUGH POLITICAL NEGOTIATION, COMPROMISE, & DEMOCRATIC DECISION-MAKING AT THE BALLOT BOX -- IRAQ'S SLOW BUT STEADY PROGRESS TOWARD THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

CHALLENGES FACING IRAQI CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  THE INSURGENCY, THE THREAT OF OUTSIDE POWERS SEEKING TO DESTABILIZE IRAQ BY PROXY, & UNITED STATES STRATEGY UNDERCUTTING IRAQI SECURITY --THE QUESTION OF IRAQ'S READINESS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- ELECTORAL & CONSTITUTIONAL MILESTONES ALREADY ACHIEVED -- THE NEED FOR IRAQI POLITICAL FACTIONS TO UPHOLD THE RULE OF LAW & HOW U.S. POLICYMAKERS CAN & SHOULD HELP

U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY:  U.S. SENATOR JON KYLE'S POSITIONS ON U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN IRAQ, EFFORTS OF ROGUE STATES TO ACQUIRE & USE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, OUR NEED TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING & EQUIPPING AMERICA'S ARMED FORCES, & ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF SHORTFALLS IN U.S. INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES

IRAQ'S DRAFT CONSTITUTION & THE DIFFICULTIES ITS FRAMERS & SUPPORTERS FACE IN GETTING THE DOCUMENT ADOPTED, ACCEPTED, & FOLLOWED BY THE VARIOUS COMPONENTS OF THE IRAQI POPULATION:  SECTARIAN & ETHNIC CONFLICT, LACK OF A SINGLE IRAQI COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE & IDENTITY, OPERATION OF ISLAMIST & TRIBAL MILITIAS, LOCAL & REGIONAL DICTATORSHIPS, THE INSURGENCY, BLUNDERS OF AMERICAN & BRITISH OFFICIALS & DIPLOMATS IN IRAQ, & THE INSINCERITY & DOUBLE-DEALING OF IRAQI POLITICAL ELITES WHO PRETEND TO COOPERATE WITH THE AMERICANS & BRITS -- THE REALITY THAT IS DIRECTLY CHALLENGING ASPIRATIONS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT & THE RULE OF LAW BEING ESTABLISHED IN IRAQ

IRAQ'S POLITICAL FUTURE UNDER THE NEW IRAQI CONSTITUTION:  CAN THE CONSTITUTION SURVIVE, CONSIDERING THE CHARACTER OF IRAQI POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE?  CAN CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY BE MADE TO WORK IN IRAQ, A COUNTRY TOTALLY UNFAMILIAR WITH CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, LEGAL PROTECTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS, FREE MARKET CAPITALISM, & FREE & HONEST ELECTIONS AS THE ACCEPTED MEANS OF PEACEFULLY TRANSFERRING GOVERNING AUTHORITY FROM ONE GROUP OF POLITICAL LEADERS TO ANOTHER?

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S IRAQI STRATEGY:  SEEKING TO ACHIEVE PEACE, ORDER, SECURITY, & POLITICAL STABILITY IN IRAQ THROUGH RECONCILIATION & COLLABORATION WITH FORMER BAATHISTS, ISLAMISTS, & ARAB SUNNI REJECTIONISTS -- A FAILED U.S. POLICY BASED ON FAULTY ASSUMPTIONS & RESULTING IN THE INSURGENCY GAINING STRENGTH & MOMENTUM -- THE PRICE OF POLITICAL COMPROMISE WITH AMERICA'S ENEMIES IN IRAQ: BITTERNESS & DIVISION AMONG NATURAL ALLIES, EMBOLDENING OF TERRORISTS, & UNNECESSARY AMERICAN & IRAQI CASUALTIES

WHY THE IRAQI OIL INDUSTRY HAS, THUS FAR, FAILED TO RECOVER & FINANCE IRAQ'S RECONSTRUCTION:  THE IMPACT OF THE INSURGENTS' CAMPAIGN OF TERRORISM & SABOTAGE ON IRAQI SOCIETY & ITS ECONOMY -- THE THREE FACTORS UPON WHICH IRAQ'S ABILITY TO BECOME A TOP OIL PRODUCING COUNTRY DEPENDS:  A SECURE ENVIRONMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT, & GOOD GOVERNANCE

THE WAR IN IRAQ:  INSURGENCY & COUNTERINSURGENCY -- THE COALITION'S EFFECTIVE USE OF SOUND TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE ESSENTIAL TO DEFEATING THE INSURGENCY MILITARILY & ESTABLISHING A STABLE & ENDURING SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ

WHAT UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO SEE REDUCED SUNNI SUPPORT FOR THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ & INCREASED SUNNI PARTICIPATION IN THE NEWLY ELECTED IRAQI GOVERNMENT:  REFRAIN FROM REWARDING POLITICAL VIOLENCE & TERRORISM IN IRAQ & FROM UNDERCUTTING THE LEGITIMACY OF THOSE SUNNI POLITICIANS WHO HAVE ESCHEWED VIOLENCE & JOINED WITH THE MAJORITY PARTIES IN GOVERNING IRAQ

HOW THE ATTITUDES & BEHAVIOR OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN SERVICE PERSONNEL IN IRAQ ARE THWARTING ATTAINMENT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY GOALS:  HOW THE U.S. EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD IS UNDERMINING THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN FOR A U.S.-IRAQI PARTNERSHIP & A TRULY SOVEREIGN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC IRAQ

KING ADDULLAH II BIN AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN DESCRIBES HIS CONCERNS ABOUT IRAQ & IRAN, EXPLAINS HIS STRATEGY TO COUNTER RADICAL ISLAM, & OUTLINES HIS HOPES FOR PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE ARABS

THE CASE OF U.S. MARINE SECOND LIEUTENANT ILARIO PANTANO, CHARGED WITH PREMEDITATED MURDER FOR KILLING TWO IRAQI INSURGENTS WHO TRIED TO ATTACK & KILL THE LIEUTENANT & HIS MEN:  THE LIEUTENANT FACING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR DOING HIS DUTY AS A MARINE OFFICER IN AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION, PROTECTING HIMSELF & THE MEN UNDER HIS COMMAND -- MILITARY JUSTICE, OR MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN THE U.S. MILITARY

THE IRAQI ELECTIONS OF JANUARY 30, 2005 -- IRAQ'S IMPORTANT START ON IT'S JOURNEY ALONG THE ARDUOUS PATH TOWARD A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM & THE IMPACT THAT THIS JOURNEY IS HAVING ON IRAQI SOCIETY & POLITICS

THE SECOND TERM OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH:  A TERM DURING WHICH THE PRESIDENT WILL CONTINUE TO PROMOTE FREEDOM, LIBERTY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THE RANK-&-FILE BUREAUCRATS IN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT & EVEN MANY IN THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WILL PERSIST IN THEIR HOSTILITY TO THE PRESIDENT'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES, & THE ACTIONS OF ADVERSARIES, RATHER THAN U.S. GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES, WILL REMAIN THE DOMINANT FACTOR IN SHAPING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM MEDIA:  OPPONENTS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & ENEMIES OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, THE RULE OF LAW, & THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT -- THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA'S BIASED, DISTORTED, & INACCURATE REPORTING OF "NEWS" REGARDING EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IN IRAQ & BRING THE BLESSINGS OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & THE RULE OF LAW TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE

POLITICAL EVENTS & ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMING ELECTION IN IRAQ -- IRAQIS READY & WILLING TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

PROBLEMS WITH THE WAR IN IRAQ:  DYSFUNCTION BETWEEN REGIONAL OFFICERS OF THE COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY & THE CPA HEADQUARTERS IN BAGHDAD, TENSION BETWEEN DIPLOMATS & SECURITY OFFICERS, & DIPLOMATS' "TONING DOWN" REPORTS OF ISLAMIST ACTIVITY OUT OF EITHER NAIVETE OR A DESIRE TO BE "POLITICALLY CORRECT" WITH REGARD TO MILITANT ISLAM -- IMPEDING IMPLEMENTATION OF EFFECTIVE DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE INSURGENTS & TERRORISTS & UNNECESSARILY ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF U.S. & ALLIED MILITARY PERSONNEL

THE COMING IRAQI ELECTION TO CHOOSE POLITICAL LEADERS WITH SUFFICIENT LEGITIMACY & MORAL AUTHORITY TO ENSURE IRAQ THE DEGREE OF POLITICAL STABILITY & INTERNAL SECURITY ESSENTIAL TO ESTABLISHMENT & SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT -- POLITICAL INSTABILITY & INTERNAL INSECURITY EXACERBATED BY THE INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS OF AMERICAN & BRITISH PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMATS & INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES TO COMPLETELY REJECT & DISCARD THE OLD POLITICAL ORDER OF SADDAM HUSSEIN & THE BAATHISTS

THE COMING TRIALS OF SADDAM HUSSEIN & HIS TOP DEPUTIES -- HOW THE IRAQ SPECIAL TRIBUNAL WAS CONSTITUTED, HOW IT WILL FUNCTION, & THE CRIMES WITH WHICH SADDAM & HIS CHIEF HENCHMEN WILL BE CHARGED:  IRAQI LAW, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, & THE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED BY THE IRAQ SPECIAL TRIBUNAL

THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT OF IRAQ & THE POLITICAL PROBLEMS OF INTERIM PRIME MINISTER AYAD ALLAWI -- ALLAWI'S FAILINGS AS A NATIONAL LEADER:  HIS FAILURE TO BUILD A POLITICAL CONSTITUENCY IN IRAQ & HIS SQUANDERING OF WHAT LITTLE SUPPORT HE HAD AMONG IRAQIS

MUQTADA AL-SADR -- HIS ROOTS, IDEOLOGY, & SUPPORTERS:  HOW & WHY THE IRAQI SHI'ITE CLERIC & RADICAL POLITICAL LEADER CONTINUES TO COMMAND HIS FORCES INTO POLITICAL & MILITARY CONFRONTATION IN IRAQ -- NEUTRALIZATION OF MUQTADA EITHER THROUGH MILITARY FORCE OR THROUGH COOPTATION INTO THE POLITICAL PROCESS IS ESSENTIAL TO AVOIDING CHAOS IN IRAQ

THE WAR IN IRAQ -- THE LONGTERM STRATEGIC REASON FOR AMERICA'S MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ:   THE RESULTING POSITION OF POWER WHICH WILL, IN TIME, ENABLE THE U.S.A. TO DECISIVELY INFLUENCE & SHAPE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA & REDUCE THE WORLDWIDE THREATS THAT HAVE THEIR GENESIS IN THAT REGION

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  FREEDOM TO SPEAK ONE'S MIND & FREEDOM TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE COMES MOST READILY TO ONE'S LIPS -- FREEDOM SORELY LACKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST

LEGISLATIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE NEW IRAQI POLITICAL REGIME:  THE PLAN FOR A SINGLE COUNTRYWIDE CONSTITUENCY WITH PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION & ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FROM PARTY LISTS, RATHER THAN FROM LOCAL OR REGIONAL DISTRICTS --- AN ELECTORAL SYSTEM THAT WILL VERY LIKELY BRING ABOUT TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY, BREED RADICALISM, PREVENT THE REGIME FROM ACQUIRING POLITICAL LEGITIMACY, REINFORCE THE INCENTIVES DRIVING THE INSURGENCY, & PERPETUATE POLITICAL INSTABILITY

WHY THE IRAQI SHIA NOW FLOCK TO MUQTADA AL-SADR:  FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. TO TAKE ON & ELIMINATE AL-SADR AT AN EARLY STAGE IN ITS OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & THE IRAQI SHIA'S PERCEPTION OF CURRENT U.S. POLICY AS FAVORING SUNNIS & FORMER BAATHISTS & BETRAYING THE SHIA

THE FAILURE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS THE PRESENCE OF PKK TERRORISTS IN NORTHERN IRAQ & ALONG TURKEY'S SOUTHERM BORDER WITH IRAQ:  A THREAT TO THE 50-YEAR PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TURKEY & THE U.S.A. & TO AMERICA'S CREDIBILITY IN THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM

RESURRECTING EMPIRE -- RASHID KHALIDI'S EXAMINATION OF THE RECORD OF WESTERN INVOLVEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST & ANALYSIS OF THE LIKELY OUTCOME OF THE MOST RECENT UNITED STATES INCURSIONS INTO THE REGION:  A BOOK PRESENTING ACCOUNTS & CONCLUSIONS WHICH REST ON QUESTIONABLE SOURCES, MANIFEST THE AUTHOR'S TENDENCY TO FAVOR POLEMIC OVER FACT, & REFLECT LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF IRAQI HISTORY & OF HOW U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IS MADE

PUBLIC OPINION IN THE NEW IRAQ:  DO MOST IRAQIS THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE SAFER & ENJOY GREATER FREEDOM IF AMERICAN & COALITION FORCES ARE IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ?  ACCORDING TO IRAQI PERCEPTIONS, WHAT ARE THE PRESSING NEEDS OF IRAQ & THE IRAQI PEOPLE?

THE U.S.A., THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE TERROR MASTERS:  ISLAMIC TERRORISM, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, WITH WHOM WE ARE AT WAR, WHY WE ARE AT WAR, & THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST

THE TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY TO IRAQ:  UNITED STATES POLICY AFFECTING IRAQ & THE SERIOUS MISTAKES THAT ARE BEING MADE BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT -- U.S. SUPPORT & ADVOCACY OF A PARTY-SLATE ELECTORAL SYSTEM FOR IRAQ & THE POLITICAL INSTABILITY & CHAOS THAT OPERATION OF SUCH A SYSTEM IN THAT COUNTRY IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE

ISLAMISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, & ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST & IN FRANCE:  WHAT MOTIVATES THE ISLAMISTS & THEIR WESTERN COLLABORATORS IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST THE JEWS, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, & WESTERN CIVILIZATION

WHICH TYPE OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM IS MORE LIKELY TO ENHANCE POLITICAL STABILITY & PRODUCE A FAIR SYSTEM OF REPRESENTATION IN THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT -- DIRECT ELECTIONS BY PARTY SLATES, WITH EACH POLITICAL PARTY GAINING REPRESENTATION ACCORDING TO ITS PORTION OF THE NATIONWIDE VOTE, OR ELECTIONS BY SINGLE-MEMBER LOCAL OR REGIONAL CONSTITUENCIES, WITH THE WINNING CANDIDATE IN A GIVEN CONSTITUENCY BECOMING THAT CONSTITUENCY'S SINGLE REPRESENTATIVE, ACCOUNTABLE TO LOCAL OR REGIONAL RESIDENTS, RATHER THAN TO PARTY BOSSES?

ARE THE IRAQIS READY TO TAKE ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SOVEREIGNTY?  WILL THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT BE ABLE TO AVOID VIOLENT OVERTHROW, ASSERT ITS AUTHORITY, & SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAIN ORDER WITHIN IRAQ?  HOW SECURE WILL THE LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IRAQI BE?  IRAQ'S UNCERTAIN POLITICAL FUTURE:  THE CONCLUSIONS THAT EMERGED FROM A TEN-DAY TRIP TO IRAQ BY A TEAM FROM THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY

THE CONDUCT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHY WE AMERICANS HOLD OUR MILITARY FORCES TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD --THE MORAL COMPONENT OF THE WAY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WAGES WAR

AMERICAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ -- THE STRATEGY THAT THE U.S.A. IS PURSUING IN IRAQ & THE SPECIFIC STEPS THAT ARE BEING TAKEN TO ACHIEVE U.S. GOALS THERE:  THE REPORT OF U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH TO THE AMERICAN NATION & THE IRAQI PEOPLE

POLITICAL & CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATIONS THAT REMAIN DISCONNECTED FROM THE MODERN WORLD & ARE STILL RULED BY DESPOTIC POLITICAL REGIMES:  WHAT AMERICA & THE OTHER FREE NATIONS MUST DO TO END THE THREAT TO GLOBAL PEACE

LEADING DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPOKESMEN & THE RECKLESS STATEMENTS THAT THEY HAVE MADE RECENTLY ABOUT THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ -- BLATANT PARTISAN POLITICS, UNRESTRAINED POLITICAL AMBITION, & IRRESPONSIBLE & UNPATRIOTIC BEHAVIOR:  SHAMEFULLY TREADING PERIOUSLY CLOSE TO TREASON

THE SITUATION IN IRAQ & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- WHAT AMERICA MUST DO & NOT DO IN ORDER TO AVOID A FUTURE OF ONGOING CHAOS & HAVOC VASTLY EXCEEDING THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE U.S.A.

IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA'S MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & THE ENDEAVOR TO PLANT THERE A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ORDER:  WHY OUR EFFORTS IN IRAQ CAN BE DESCRIBED AS WORTHY & NOBLE

THE CONTINUING INSURGENCY & TERRORISM IN IRAQ & THE ENDEAVOR OF THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION PARTNERS TO BRING ORDER & STABILITY TO THAT MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY: CONGRESSMAN TOM TANCREDO'S TRIBUTE TO THE VALIANT EFFORTS OF COALITION SOLDERS IN IRAQ

UNRESTRAINED POLITICAL AMBITION & THE DISHONORABLE BEHAVIOR OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS & THEIR ALLIES IN THE LIBERAL LEFTIST MAINSTREAM MEDIA -- THE POLITICAL LEFT'S DEMONSTRATED WILLINGNESS TO RISK UNDERMINING THE WAR EFFORT AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM & DOING GREAT HARM TO U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY BY THEIR POLITICIZING EVENTS IN IRAQ IN ORDER TO BRING DOWN THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BISH & PUT A LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRAT IN THE WHITE HOUSE

THE GREAT UPROAR OVER ISOLATED EVENTS IN IRAQ, INCLUDING THE ABUSE OF SOME IRAQI DETAINEES IN U.S. MILITARY CUSTODY -- AN UPROAR DESIGNED TO UNDERMINE HOMEFRONT & MILITARY MORALE, ERODE AMERICAN & ALLIED SUPPORT FOR THE WAR, & BOLSTER RESISTANCE TO REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ:  PURSUIT OF A POLITICAL AGENDA ENTAILING U.S. & ALLIED DEFEAT IN THE WAR & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S VICTORY IN THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, AT THE EXPENSE OF U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY

THR SITUATION IN IRAQ -- A SITUATION GIVING THE U.S.A. TWO CHOICES:  EITHER FIGHT ON TO THE END IN THE HEART OF THE REGION THAT MOST THREATENS AMERICA & ITS NATIONAL INTERESTS OR SUFFER A MUCH WORSE FATE FOR FAILURE TO FIGHT THIS WAR TO A CONCLUSION THAT WILL BE CLEARLY & UNAMBIGUOUSLY PERCEIVED BY THE POPULATIONS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD AS A TOTAL VICTORY FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES & AS A TOTAL & DISASTROUS DEFEAT FOR THE FEDAYEEN SADDAM, THE AL-SADR RADICAL SHI'ITES, & THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC JIHADISTS

THE WAR IN IRAQ & THE WIDER WAR AGAINST WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC TERRORISM -- INTEGRAL PARTS OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE GLOBAL CONFLICT AMERICA & ITS ALLIES ARE WAGING, NOT BY CHOICE, BUT AS A COMPELLING OBLIGATION & DUTY TO TAKE UP ARMS TO DEFEND & ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF HUMAN FREEDOM & WESTERN CIVILIZATION

LAYING THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS FOR STATISM, SOCIALISM, AUTHORITARIANISM, & TYRANNY IN IRAQ:  THE INTERIM IRAQI CONSTITUTION'S FAILURE TO MENTION FREE MARKET PRINCIPLES & PROVIDE ADEQUATE GUARANTEES & PROTECTIONS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS

CAN STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES BE ESTABLISHED & MADE TO WORK IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, & OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES? WHAT ARE THE PROSPECTS FOR ISLAMIC DEMOCRACY? BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO ESTABLISH SUCCESSFUL CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN, WHAT VERY IMPORTANT POLITICAL & CULTURAL REALITIES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD MUST BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION?

NERMIN AL-MUFTI:  FORMER SADDAM HUSSEIN PROPAGANDIST RECENTLY IN THE U.S.A. DISSEMINATING PROPAGANDA HIGHLY CRITICAL OF THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & THE U.S. MILITARY'S TREATMENT OF IRAQI CITIZENS -- PROPAGANDA DESIGNED TO EXACERBATE CONTROVERSY & DIVISION AMONG AMERICANS OVER THE OCCUPATION, UNDERMINE & DESTROY AMERICAN RESOLVE, & INDUCE A U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ BEFORE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE TASK OF HELPING THE IRAQIS ESTABLISH & BEGIN OPERATING A JUST & STABLE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

THE U.S. DETERMINATION TO BRING TO IRAQ CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, & CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED & GUARANTEED BASIC RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL -- THE CONTINUING NEED TO CLARIFY WHY THE U.S.A. INVADED IRAQ: SEEKING TO PUT IN PERSPECTIVE THE WORLD SINCE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

AL-MANAR -- A LEBANON-BASED & IRANIAN-SUPPORTED TELEVISION STATION CONTROLLED BY THE HIZBULLAH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION & FINE-TUNED TO PRESENT A MILITANTLY ISLAMIST WORLDVIEW & PROMOTE AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT & PROFOUNDLY ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA:  THE ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT OF AL-MANAR, THE NATURE OF ITS MESSAGE, & WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO TO MITIGATE ITS EFFECTS

THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN, THE EXISTENCE OR NONEXISTENCE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ, & THE ISSUE OF THE INTREGITY & CAPABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF LIBERAL IDEOLOGUES & HOW IT IS BEING EXPLOITED BY AMBITIOUS & UNPRINCIPLED DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICAL OPPORTUNISTS WHO SEEK POLITICAL POWER IN A MANNER THAT IMPERILS THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ANSAR AL-ISLAM -- A CONSTITUENT TERRORIST GROUP WITHIN THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL TERROR NETWORK OF OSAMA BIN LADEN & THE MAIN LINK CONNECTING AL-QA'IDA, THE FORMER BAATHIST REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN, & THE CURRENT INSURGENCY IN IRAQ

LEFTWING LIBERAL POLITICAL PROPAGANDA REGARDING PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & UNITED STATES MILITARY ACTION IN IRAQ:  THE LIES THAT ARE BEING SPREAD BY LIBERAL LEFTIST IDEOLOGUES & AMBITIOUS DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLITICIANS

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- WAGING THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM & STATE POLITICAL REGIMES WHICH AID & ABET THE TERRORIST ENEMY

FACTS ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ -- FACTS REGARDING CONDITIONS IN IRAQ BEFORE OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM, IN COMPARISON WITH CURRENT CONDITIONS IN IRAQ:  FACTS WHICH INDICATE THAT, WITHOUT QUESTION, IRAQ, THE U.S.A., ITS COALITION PARTNERS, & THE REST OF THE WORLD ARE MUCH BETTER OFF NOW THAN THEY WERE BEFORE THE INVASION OF IRAQ & THE TOPPLING OF THE DESPOTIC REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN

WILL IRAQ HAVE A SECURE & ORDERLY FUTURE UNDER A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL REGIME?  WILL THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES REMAIN SUFFICIENTLY CONFIDENT & RESOLUTE TO SEE THEIR VENTURE IN IRAQ THROUGH TO THE FINISH?

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