Lubna is an Iraqi Palestinian, a double refugee, living in the desert close to the border with Syria. Her ancestors fled Palestine 60 years ago when Jewish forces took control of their home in Haifa, and now she is trying to flee Iraq.What does it feel like to raise a newborn baby in an inhospitable desert where scorpions crawl about and sandstorms threaten to bring down one’s tent?

Lubna Falah is about to find out. She will soon deliver her baby. This is not her first child, but she has never tried to raise one in a tent.

Lawsuits against oil giants should come along with or be subsequently followed by indictments against ferocious dictators, power-obsessed militaries, corrupt officials, irresponsible national companies and mercenary individuals.
But who dares to throw the first stone?!

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
Americans will regret their myopia if they allow Iraqi refugees to grow up uneducated and unemployable.

By Thomas L. Friedman (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
We may one day look back on the last few months as Iraq’s real war of liberation. The one we led five years ago didn’t count.

By Thomas L. Friedman (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
What the U.S. does next in Iraq – how and why – is barely getting discussed in the presidential campaign. Americans should start talking about it.