Who are we fighting in Iraq: domestic insurgents or foreign terrorists?

Decentralizing Iraq's political system may be the only way to prevent the country from falling apart.

Step-by-step, Iranian authorities are replicating in Iraq the strategy which allowed Hezbollah to take over southern Lebanon in the 1980s.

Even if Ahmad Chalabi turns out to be a master spy for Iran, he cannot be blamed for an enormous intelligence and policy failure.

Iraq's salvation still rides with the two forces that few had foreseen: the religious Shiites and the U.S. military.

In Iraq today, Iran is replicating the methods by which it promoted the rise of Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s, and the United States must develop an effective counterstrategy.

Only accountability to constituencies brings democracy.

It's not hard to understand why the Islamic identity has gained ground on secular nationalism in probably every Muslim state in the region.