Le général Casey, le commandant des forces américaines en Irak, a annoncé que les Etats-Unis entendent commencer un retrait «réellement significatif» de leurs forces armées hors d’Irak juste après l’établissement d’un gouvernement constitutionnel par les élections prévues pour décembre….more
NEW YORK The Iraqi election scheduled for Sunday, only recently viewed as a culmination, is now being described as the inauguration of a civil war. The timing and the voting arrangements have become controversial. All this is a way of foreshadowing a demand for an exit strategy, by which many critics mean some sort of […]
The election campaign that has mesmerized America – and the world – is over. What remains are the challenges that gave rise to this occasionally frenzied battle and the responsibility of dealing with them….more