September 8, 2008
Why was the “Iraq Surge” a “success”?Juan Cole explains it once again:A crucial element in the fall of violence from the catastrophic levels of summer,2006, was the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad of its Sunnis. I wrote in mid-July:”As best I can piece it…
Posted by Huib Riethof
Juan Cole follows hour after hour developments in Lebanon. The armed clash, involving Hizbollah and the Lebanese Army, the one the US and so many others longed for, and the same one that so many others (including me) hoped could be avoided, happens the…
Posted by Huib Riethof
Why do the Dutch and the Belgians block an SAA?A Fistful of Euros wonders, why the Dutch dare (together with the Belgians) to block a Serbian Accession Agreement to the EU. The SAA was intended to help the less extremist Serbian factions to accept (gru…
Posted by Huib Riethof
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, Army, Belgium, EU Security Defense, France, Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, UK, USA |
September 17, 2007
No, no: It has not been the popular hate-manifestation that Europe’s baldheads hoped for. A mere 200 people gathered on September 11 at the Luxemburg Train Station and the Schuman Square. Most of them were Vlaams Belang activists, who saw the event fro…
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, Belgium, EU Security Defense, Germany, Islam, UK, Ulfkotte |
