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A U.S. Marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square in downtown Baghdad on April 9, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Justified

by Azad Jundyany | Mar 31, 2013 | Debate

The debate over the 2003 international intervention in Iraq is ongoing, and many people continue to express the view that the toppling of the Ba’athist regime by the US and its allies was an example of foreign occupation. Some of those espousing this view rely...

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A U.S. soldier aims his weapon at a man who a soldier had just shot in the neck as he attempted to flee down a narrow alley in a van, across the street from the scene of Tuesday’s intense shootout on a house in Mosul, Iraq on Wednesday, July 23, 2003. (AP)

Ten Years On: The Iraq War Was Not Justified

by Gerard Russel | Mar 31, 2013 | Debate

The first Westerner to invade and occupy Iraq has been respected and admired by its people ever since. I refer, of course, to Alexander the Great, known in Arabic as Dhu Al–Qurnain. Even the British, when they took over the administration of the country a hundred...

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, during a ceremony to mark Islam’s Prophet Muhammad’s birth in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Why Europe Should Ban Hezbollah

by Matthew Levitt | Mar 19, 2013 | Debate

According to Bulgarian investigators, Hezbollah was responsible for the July 2012 bus bombing that left five Israelis and a Bulgarian dead at Burgas airport. Two of the Hezbollah operatives were Western citizens—a Canadian and an Australian—who returned to Lebanon via...

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In this November 12, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah fighters hold their party flags, as they parade during the opening of new cemetery for colleagues who died in fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon.AP Photo/Hussein Malla

Why Europe Shouldn’t Ban Hezbollah

by Dr. Talal Atrissi | Mar 19, 2013 | Debate

Europe usually supports and complements American policies and positions in the Middle East; however placing Hezbollah on the list of designated terrorist organizations is an exception to this rule. Washington has always been keen to push the Europeans to take this...