November 6, 2008
Congratulations, President Obama. I am sincerely happy today and I believe you are as well. I'm sure you are exhausted in a variety of ways, and I wish that your grandmother could have seen last night.I am trying to figure out why, exactly, I am happy today.Despite Fox news' pronouncements, racism...
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euphoric is the word to describe washington dc last night. I was done with my last TV interview at around one in the morning. When I walked out of the studio I was really surprised to see dozens of cars driving around honking their horns, and people running around the streets screaming and dancin...
go to article »November 5, 2008
Over the years I have often found myself defending Americans from such critics as the French or Arabs, who charge the people of the U.S. are ignorant racist idiots. I have tried to talk to those critics, but naturally I got nowhere. Maybe the election of Barack Obama as president of the United State...
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From an Arab perspective, foreign policy is paramount as far as the next American president's intentions are concerned. Of course there is the ambivalent approach on Iran, the position on Israel (read this too), the condescending interventionist stance on Pakistan and all the rest of it. But let's f...
go to article »November 4, 2008
November 3, 2008
The Associated Press reportedSunday that Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has sent a draft of a security deal between Iraq and the U.S. back to Washington, asking for certain important changes. Maliki does not wan to let his country’s Parliament vote on the deal until the Americans accept s...
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It all seemed to be going so well. A quick war toppling an oppressive regime to free the poor masses from tyranny, a sound plan surely… However, all did not go quite according to plan, the oppressed masses sparked a bloody insurgency and the U.S. death toll grew higher by the day, the week, the mo...
go to article »October 31, 2008
It is no secret to some of us Iraqis that passports and ID documents can be issued quickly from inside Iraq by bribery or by favoritism. And it is no secret that those responsible for issuing thousands of passports to non-Iraqis by our embassy in Sweden have returned to their original positions in t...
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Although we often speak about who foreigners, especially Europeans, prefer to win, we have spent little to no time explaining what Iraqis - a key foreign population - think. Agence France-Presse reported Friday that quite some of them want John McCain to win. That may surprise quite some Americans w...
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