Mideast Daily

Violence in Iraq seems to be unabated. And as militants up their ante against the state, Iraq and Jordan have joined hands to fight their common enemy, the Al Qaeda. In another incident in Iraq, more than 200 innocent lives were lost in a bomb attack. Ruthless attacks by the militants of Al Qaeda in the form of bombings have continued ever since the war on terror began. The Shia-Sunni…

Branding Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist group might not fetch the desired results. Following closely on Wednesday’s remarks from Washington that Revolutionary Guards would soon be branded as ‘terrorist’ group, came counter-remarks from a Guards’ official on Thursday that such an action would fail to isolate, or for that matter, weaken it. The head of the political office of the Revolutionary Guards, Javani, lashing out on the new…

US’s back door policies to deal with the crises in the Mideast are nothing but a blunder and this is evident when for the second consecutive time it poured arms in the region. Was it really needed? This poking in the Mideast affairs will prove a pinch of salt to it and will worsen the crises than untying the knots In a bid to isolate Iran in the region, now…

The insoluble Mideast crises are taking turns one after the other and US-Israeli efforts to alienate Hamas in Gaza are dashing down to the ground with the new strength that Hamas is gaining in the west Bank. Well, it was expected to happen. Hamas is indispensable for the peace and stability of the entire Mideast and it can’t be achieved if Palestinians remain divided. After Hamas’ violent takeover of Gaza,…

The war in Iraq has all the looks of becoming the biggest disaster for the US since the Vietnam war. Its overwhelming air superiority did win it the war, but from then on it has just been going down. The US lost the moral high ground which it had assumed during the campaign after Abu Ghariab. It soon became apparent that it would also lose in fulfilling its avowed objectives…

President Bush has forcefully reiterated his intention to stay in Iraq till the country stabilizes. At a speech addressed to Vietnam veterans he forcefully made his point. He said that Iraq was no different from Japan, South Korea or Vietnam. The US finished their job in Japan, referring to its defeat in the Second World War. Look, said Bush, Japan today is an ally, a democracy and a rich nation….

Persuasion works; but works especially well if you are persuading with a loaded gun. That was one of the lesson that Al Capone taught. The present generation of politicians seem to have imbibed that lesson rather well. First the US moved its 5th fleet to the Persian Gulf, and now Iran says its has perfected a 2000 pound smart bomb. Both the countries say they remain committed to solving their…

Political instability, mayhem, and deadly violence have left Iraq in tatters and forces one to contemplate ‘what’s next’? With this hopes for a peaceful and bright future are also fading away. Now the counter allegations between al-Maliki and US senators have begun which reflects the callousness on either side without adhering to the plights of Iraqis. Violence unabatedly spills over in Iraq defying every US effort to stem it. Amid…

The National Intelligence Estimate report paints a near nightmarish picture. It says the Iraqi security forces, despite improving slightly, are incapable of handling the situation in the country. If the prop of US military presence is withdrawn they will quickly fold up. The political situation is worse. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki seems to be hopelessly lost in the maze of pulls and complexities of Iraqi politics. He neither has…

Iraq went From bad to worse, from worse to worst and now the violence nullifies any positive step forward with blood stains. Nevertheless, another step downwards, as the fierce counter allegations – in face saving attempts – on Iraqi turmoil has begun between US lawmakers, who are demanding the ouster of Iraqi PM, and Maliki, strongly bouncing back with ‘come to the senses people’. The loosening knots between al-Maliki and…