Iraqi American Institute - IAI

10/24/2023

Collateral Threshold Dilemma
At what point, the price of the collateral damage outweighs noble objectives

To take out Saddam, we lost Iraq
To take out Qaddafi we lost Libya
To take out al-Qaida, we lost Afghanistan
To take out Asad, we threw Syria asunder

To take out Hamas, we will lose …………………

Bad guys must go but the question is at what price and whether there are better ways … perhaps to not let the problem fester to the point where the price of uprooting evil becomes as unbearable as the evil itself .. I supported full heartedly in removing Saddam but not too thrilled for neither the price we gave nor for the alternative and the outcome.

While Israel is rightly outraged for the carnage it suffered on the 7th of October the collateral is already too high on the Palestinian side without guaranteeing the ultimate outcome is favorable but like president Biden says the final decision will be Israel’s own .. we just hope that decision will not burn us all ..

11/24/2022

Brasil looks like Brasil this time .. first normal team in Qatar!

10/08/2019

The Iraqi American Institute ( IAI ) will resume its online and social media activities in support of the youth uprising in Iraq towards a civil, secular, progressive future that prioritizes human dignity and human development over all other consideration. It is in the spirit of people self - rule , and in the spirt of human rights, and in the spirit of liberty and prosperity the youth of Iraq find in the youth of America their best friend and supporter.

10/08/2019

05/10/2014

Iraqi American Institute (IAI) will be launched soon. IAI is a new research institute on Iraq based in Boston and collaborates with Harvard University on research projects concerning post-war Iraq's political, economic and social lives. It is particularly focused on democratization and foreign policy issues.