As American government officials bicker over when and how to end the conflict in Iraq, struggling U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq are becoming increasingly concerned about the capabilities of Iraq's U.S.-trained police force, following a week of violence in which it was difficult to tell whether the Iraqi police know what their job is.   more »

n one imperfect but powerful stroke, he departed from his predecessor's largely benign approach to Islam, discovered an issue that might attract even the most religiously jaded and managed (for better or worse) to reanimate the clash-of-civilizations discussion by focusing scrutiny on the core question of whether Islam, as a religion, sanctions violence.   more »