Can the angels’ Christmas song ever become a reality? The prospects for peace in Iraq depend on how one defines this tricky concept. Tacitus long ago noted how occupying armies equate desolation with peace. A...
On closer inspection, however, the use of the term is highly charged politically. How is it that the US-funded guerrillas, the forerunner of the Taliban, resisting the Government of Afghanistan in the 1980s, were designated...
