Quotes of the Day
The News We Kept to Ourselves
The chief news executive at CNN saw many awful things in Iraq that could not be reported. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, the stories can be told
The Search for the POWs
It's now the turn of American POWs besides Jessica Lynch to be reunited with their families, writes H.D.S. Greenway in The Boston Globe. Plus, POWs from other wars in Iraq
The Chilling Metaphor of Saddam's Statue
The peace will be thrown together like a pot-luck lunch for people too hungry to care what they're getting, writes Deborah Orr in the Independent
How Did the Military get So Good
Fred Kaplan of Slate on what lies behind the military's victory in Iraq
Farewell, France
The U.S. will shake hands in public with Germany and France, but those countries will never again be allowed even the illusion of a voice in shaping American policy, writes Ralph Peters in the New York Post
Conquest and Neglect
After each triumph, when it is time to take care of what's been won, the Bush administration's attention wanders, writes Paul Krugman in The New York Times
No Quagmire, but Still Some Questions
the serious case against this war was never that we might actually lose it militarily, writes Michael Kinsley in The Washington Post. The serious case, he says, involved questions that are still unresolved
Objectivity Is Lost to Fox News' Barbs
Howard Rosenberg writes in the Los Angeles Times that at FNC objectivity is routinely dispatched like images of Saddam Hussein
The World Press on the War
There was rich symbolism in the way Iraqis celebrated the fall of Baghdad. Salon tells us how to decode it
Iraq Will Preoccupy and Pin Down the U.S. for Years
Martin Woollacott writes in the Guardian that victory in Iraq is at once a blow for freedom and a step into an unknown world in which the extent of American power and the wisdom with which it is used become even more critical
Stories from Thursday, April 10
The Iraq the Arab World Saw All Along
Dire predictions notwithstanding, Arabs did not rise up to destroy American interests in the Middle East, writes Mamoun Fandy in The New York Times
Iraqis Have Paid the Blood Price for a Fraudulent War
The crudely colonial nature of this enterprise can no longer be disguised, writes Seumas Milne in the Guardian
The Joke Is on the Pacifists
Like the Iraqi Information Minister, the anti-war brigade is becoming irrelevant, writes Miranda Devine in the Sydney Morning Herald
Jubilant V-I Day
If Iraqis are able to adopt a system of free enterprise and representative government, they will become the center of an arc of freedom, writes William Safire in The New York Times
Slow to Anger, Awesome in Fury
To their enemies' surprise, liberal democracies throughout history have made frightening war, writes Victor Davis Hanson in the Los Angeles Times
A War of Images
Iraquis may have loathed Saddam but, unlike Eastern Europeans during the fall of Communism, have no particular fondness for the United States, as evidenced by their mute reaction to the American flag in Firdos Square, writes Richard Cohen of The Washington Post
A Road much Traveled
Sol W. Sanders writes in The Washington Times that the U.N. continues down the wrong way to aid
Unspoken Meanings of Symbols
The U.S. now faces a reconstruction task overflowing with symbolic opportunities and booby traps, writes Ian Hurd in the Chicago Tribune
Internet the Victor of News War
Natasha Walter writes in the Independent that the Internet has shown us the overwhelming desire to communicate, across all sorts of geographical and political divides
Johnny Dead Line
Slate's Jack Shafer on the true risks of covering war
- Opinion from around the Web on the fall of Baghdad and beyond