News and Analysis (7/19-20/08)

The next time the U.S. Supreme Court visits the second emendment, it may want to look at the phrase “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state” in the light of Hezbollah’s defense of Lebanon:

In Iraq, the victim’s uncle calls the U.S. attack “barbaric and inhuman” …

… while in Afghanistan, “police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban:”

Jacob Hornberger argues that the frequent repetition of the falsehoods that led to the war in Iraq are necessary distraction to prevent American civilians and soldiers form realizing that the invasion constititutes a war crime as defined at Nuremberg:

Iraqis desperate to flee fall victim to fraudulent smugglers:

The “Byzantine” relationship between the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI is underscored by their conflicting relationship with the Taliban:

Amid talks of foreign troop reductions, a year-long boycott ends:

Iranian nuclear talks fail, but Iranians suggest they are open to a “freeze for freeze deal” while Americans say they hope the talks will renew an internal debate inside Iran:

Jesuit teacher of religion in the Muslim world is impresses by a “felt-in-the-bone understanding of what it is to live one’s life committed to one’s faith” absent in the West:


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