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Iraq

  • What the Iraq War Did to and for the Middle East

    The idealists' argument for going to war

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 11, 2013
  • Threat Inflation and Deflation, Cont.

    Assessing the past 10 years of war

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 8, 2013
  • On George W. Bush: The 'Decider' Who Didn't Decide?

    A "strong" president who at times chose to be weak

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 7, 2013
  • Threat Inflation, Threat Deflation, the Bushes, and Robert Byrd

    Ten years after the invasion of Iraq, what will we let ourselves learn?

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 6, 2013
  • On Threat Inflation and Liberal Hawks

    Maybe 'threat inflation' is even more widespread than we thought.

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 2, 2013
  • As We Near the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq War

    Ten years ago this month, the United States made one of the biggest strategic mistakes since its founding. We can barely stand to think back, but we should.

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 1, 2013
  • What We Can 'Learn' From Our 9 Years in Iraq

    Did anything useful come of the invasion of Iraq? Perhaps -- if only in the lessons it might provide.

    • James Fallows
    • Mar 26, 2012
  • A Brilliant Doonesbury Today

    The war in Iraq: too easily forgotten by some who should remember

    • James Fallows
    • Dec 20, 2011
  • A Trip I Wish I Could Make

    The Administration has promised to double U.S. exports. Here's an unexpected frontier in that effort.

    • James Fallows
    • May 6, 2011
  • On 'Treason' and Julian Assange

    Julian Assange can be accused of many things, but not of treason against the United States.

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 29, 2010
  • WIF Giveth, and WIF Taketh Away (Chalabi Dept)

    Let's not rewrite history about the war in Iraq

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 1, 2010
  • "Impressions of Afghanistan"

    An Atlantic author from 1958, with insights on the Afghanistan of 2010

    • James Fallows
    • Aug 31, 2010
  • On the "Bomb Iran" Debate

    A reader writes in support of our cover-story analysis; I dissent from one of our commenters.

    • James Fallows
    • Aug 17, 2010
  • Backlog: WikiLeaks, Dylan in China, and So On

    More WikiLeaks reactions, including links to a large number of other videos.

    • James Fallows
    • Apr 9, 2010
  • More on WikiLeaks and the Baghdad Footage

    More on the moral calculus of the shooting we see on film.

    • James Fallows
    • Apr 7, 2010
  • Two Reader Responses on the Wikileaks Footage

    Should the shocking footage from Baghdad have stayed bottled up?

    • James Fallows
    • Apr 7, 2010
  • Further on the Wikileaks Iraq Footage

    The lesson of the footage for future wars.

    • James Fallows
    • Apr 6, 2010
  • In Case You Missed Them...

    Three items, one very disturbing, involving the role of the press.

    • James Fallows
    • Apr 6, 2010
  • At the F'DOH

    • James Fallows
    • Oct 1, 2009
  • Festival of updates #5: Wolfowitz and Iraq

    • James Fallows
    • Sep 5, 2009
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