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Morals in the Age of One Superpower

By Adil E. Shamoo, May 9, 2012

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The article republished in :Huffingtonpost.

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Principled Intervention in Syria

By Adil E. Shamoo, April 27, 2012

Young protester in Homs

Progressives must seriously consider intervention in Syria despite our misgivings. Such an intervention, however, need not impose hegemony on Syria. Unfortunately, so far no one advocating intervention has pledged to abide by fundamental moral principles of respecting Syrians, their independence, and their future government.

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In Iraq, occupation by another name

Even as embassy population is reduced, America is projecting power by adding CIA personnel and Special Operations

By Adil E. Shamoo

3:34 p.m. EST, February 16, 2012

Two recent reports appearing on the same day last week in The New York Times and The Washington Post illustrate U.S. intentions in Iraq. What they reveal is that despite the heralded "end" of U.S. participation in the war there, U.S. policy continues to depend on our security apparatus to influence Iraq, at the expense of Iraqis' sovereignty and dignity.

The Times report informed us that the U.S. State Department decided to cut the U.S. embassy staff by 50 percent from its current 16,000 personnel. This is a good decision; the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is the largest in the world. The reason given for the decision is primarily to reduce the American footprint in Iraq with the hope of reducing Iraqi hostility toward these evident remnants of occupation.

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http://www.alaalem.com/index.php?aa=news&id22=44376    (In Arabic at an Iraqi newspaper called alaalem).

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Syria's Revolution Will Succeed

By Adil E. Shamoo, January 13, 2012

Protesting the Syrian repression

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime must step down immediately—without Western military intervention. Certainly, the Syrian people deserve support to protect them from the brutal and barbaric onslaught of the Syrian’s security forces. But such assistance and safe haven should come from Arab countries and Turkey. Help from other Arab or Muslim countries would be less offensive to the Syrian people, would be less likely to entail an occupation force, and would likely be less long-lasting than an intervention by Western countries.

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Doctors under fire amid 'Arab Spring' revolutions

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

An injured protester is treated by a doctor in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt on Thursday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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As the revolutions collectively known as “the Arab Spring” have rocked the Middle East and North Africa, medical professionals have often been caught in the crossfire. Dictators like Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and the late Moammar Gadhafi in Libya have threatened, imprisoned, tortured and killed doctors who dared treat the protesters and rebels threatening their regimes. In Bahrain, government agents have attacked physicians, medical staff, patients, and unarmed civilians with the use of bird shot, physical beatings, rubber bullets, tear gas, and unidentified chemical agents, and convicted them of trumped up charges. Joining us to discuss doctors under siege in the Arab world, and the pursuit of “medical neutrality” on Capitol Hill and in the United Nations, is RICHARD SOLLOM, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights, who has led recent investigative expeditions into Bahrain and Libya. We’ll also hear from ADIL SHAMOO, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus, who thinks the U.S. medical community should support their colleagues in Bahrain more vigorously.

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Dr Adil Shamoo, foreign policy expert from the US, has welcomed the Cabinet’s decision to resign as “a very good step.”

It will put the military on notice that they can no longer kill people and arrest people and wound people and torture some of them, and feel free to have extremely limited democracy as long as they stay in power and do whatever they want in terms of budget and secret trials,” Shamoo told RT.

http://rt.com/news/egypt-cabinet-resigns-tahrir-877/

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Bahrain's Courageous Doctors

By Adil E. Shamoo, November 7, 2011

Bahraini medical personnel protesting in Manama (Photo: Dr. Nabeel al Ansari).

The United States continues to ignore the thwarted Arab Spring in Bahrain. Recently, a quasi-military court in the small Gulf state sentenced 20 doctors and nurses to up to 15 years in jail. The charge against them? Treating injured demonstrators opposing the regime.

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Is U.S. really leaving Iraq?

Despite planned troop withdrawal, our continued influence and presence there will be huge

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker

1:49 PM EDT, October 25, 2011

"After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over."

With his Oct. 21 statement on our withdrawal of troops from Iraq by year-end, President Barack Obama is keeping his promise to the American people for complete withdrawal of U.S. troops and satisfying the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government. Mr. Obama declared that the U.S. and Iraq would have a "relationship between sovereign states, an equal partnership based on mutual interests and mutual respect."

Yet even with the withdrawal under way, Mr. Obama's actions continue to undermine the sovereignty of Iraq.

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The Upcoming Palestinian Uprising

By Adil E. Shamoo, August 23, 2011

The past and possible future of Palestinian protest; photo by Nasser Nouri via flickr

If conditions do not change quickly by the time of the U.S.-promised veto of Palestinian statehood at the UN General Assembly on September 20, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could explode into a new uprising with hundreds of deaths. The recent attack of Palestinian extremists on a bus in the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat and the eager over-reaction of Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu is a harbinger of what is to come.

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U.S. needs to completely withdraw from Iraq

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Humanitarian Intervention in Libya?

By Adil E. Shamoo, March 16, 2011

Unlike the despots in Egypt and Tunisia, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is resisting the popular revolutions sweeping the Arab world. As of this writing, the pro-democracy rebels successfully control Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, and most of the eastern part of the country. Gaddafi still controls most of the military, revolutionary committees, and foreign mercenaries. More importantly, Gaddafi controls the capital city of Tripoli with a population of 2.5 million out of a total population of 6.5 million. Gaddafi is attacking the rebels, taking back Zawiya, Ras Lanof, and pushing forward east to take more rebel areas.

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On the Wrong Side of History in the Middle East

By Adil E. Shamoo, January 31, 2011

For over sixty years, the U.S. and the West wanted stability in the Middle East while dividing and conquering the area. They installed and supported puppets, despots,  and corrupt and totalitarian regimes as long as they did our bidding. The West had no plans to bring freedom and democracy to Middle Eastern countries. Granting sovereignty to Middle Eastern countries was furthest from the minds of Western leaders.

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The threat of bad science

A false vaccine-autism link caused great harm; we must act to stem the next medical fraud

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker

3:46 PM EST, January 10, 2011

No parent wants to make his or her own child sick. So when Andrew Wakefield's 1998 study indicated that the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) could cause children to develop autism, an entire industry developed to prevent the vaccine from being given. Along with scares that Thimerosal — a mercury preservative previously used in childhood vaccines — was a culprit in autism rates, anti-vaccine fury spread throughout the country.

Media coverage was widespread. Grass-roots organizations sprouted. School systems revised vaccine regulations. All this for a study on 12 children that has now been proven false. And all occurring in spite of the consistent recommendations of physicians' groups urging parents to vaccinate their children.

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Major Advances Demand Moral Leadership

Adil E. Shamoo

Ocober 6, 2010

Give a break to President Obama on domestic issues. He has no choice but to have compromised on recent legislations – healthcare and financial reforms. Let us not wait for perfect reforms and cut our own throat to achieve nothing – we, the progressives, will not get all what we want because we simply do not have the votes.

Most of social, civil and political advances in our society require moral leadership and compromises. To name few: 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation, 1865 - abolishing slavery with the 13^th Amendment, 1868 – due process and equal protection rights to all citizens, 1870 – right to vote to all citizens with the 15^th Amendment, 1920 – granting women the right to vote with the 19^th Amendment, 1964 – Civil Rights Act, and the 1965 – Voting Rights Act. In each one of these great accomplishments, there were decades of advocacy and suffering but also there were compromises.

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Are Foreign Lives of Equal Worth to Ours?

By Adil E. Shamoo, June 16, 2010

When a U.S. civilian is murdered in a foreign land or in the United States, we rightfully feel angry, sad, and some of us demand vengeance. These are normal, primordial, and instinctive feelings of group loyalty and herd mentality that have bound communities and countries for thousands of years. Should such human traits, which are often beneficial, emotional and irrational, continue to justify the retaliatory killing of innocent civilians in the 21^st century?

After the tragic murder of nearly 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11, the United States toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan and killed and captured hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders and members. However, Afghanistan lost as many as 32,000 citizens since the U.S. invasion in 2001.

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Worst Fears May be Realized In Iraq

In December, 2002, the talk of our holiday gathering was the looming possibility of the invasion of Iraq. The conversation was not just political -- it was personal. For one of us, born in Baghdad, the faces of those back home were imagined and fears for their future gripped like a vise.

But it was not just the immediate future that cast the deepest shadows across their imagined faces. It was the fear that once Saddam fell, US strategy would never allow for a full Iraqi exit. Heated debates over if the invasion would occur ensued at that gathering in 2002, but no one could believe that the fears of continued occupation would ever be realized.

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Iraq's Baby Steps Toward Democracy

By Adil E. Shamoo, March 30, 2010

The Obama administration may finally get some good news. Iraq’s recent elections for parliament might actually result in a non-sectarian, pro-American government. This outcome would enable the Obama administration to fulfill its goal of removing all but 50,000 support troops by this August and drawn U.S. forces down to zero by the end of 2011.

The resilient and courageous Iraqi people voted in higher percentages than the American electorate, with 62 percent of eligible voters going to the polls. This voter participation is a positive step toward a free, sovereign, and democratic Iraq. The future, however, will depend on the actions and attitudes of Iraqis, Americans and Iraq’s neighbors.

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Recent suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad have sent a message to Washington: Maintaining the Iraq policy of the past administration does not inspire hope. Iraqi insurgents linked to al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the bombing, which hit hotels frequented by Western journalists. The attacks followed the government’s banning of 511 parliamentary candidates for the upcoming election this March. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government banned a large number of independents, nationalists, secularists and current opponents of the government, including Sunni and Baathist politicians.

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January 27, 2010 Obama's Mixed Policy and Message on "Just War" By Adil Shamoo

The President's iteration of the principles of a just war in his speech in Oslo, before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, includes a heartening declaration. Consistent with the theories of just war, Mr. Obama declared that war should only be waged as a last resort and in self-defense, with proportionality and the avoidance of harm to civilians whenever possible.

Stating, "Evil does exist in the world. Non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies," Mr. Obama used the Peace Prize forum to explain his reasons for continuing two wars. His just war doctrine is not a pacificist concept but rather a war concept. He reminded us that "this concept of just war" was "rarely observed". Mr. President, many voted for you for the exact purpose of changing the past evils of wars, in general, and specifically for changing the prevailing doctrine of the last administration by imposing our will on the world either by force or intimidation.

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January 13, 2010

There is an old story regarding a conversation at the Yalta conference in February, 1945 during the Second World War.  Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin were meeting near a small pond containing a half dozen gold fish. While the leaders were sipping their tea, they debated the best method for catching the fish in the pond. Stalin pulled his revolver and emptied it into the pond without any luck.  Roosevelt used a fishing pole and gave up after a half an hour. Churchill took his tea spoon and began removing one spoon of water at a time. He explained: by emptying the pond, I will catch them all.

Al-Qaeda exists because of the 1.7 Billion Muslims worldwide, a large portion are discontent and angry at the policies of the United States. This discontent provides the pond water for their recruitment into al-Qaeda. Most of these discontented Muslims will never practice terrorism but will, in some way, support some anti-American activities. They might attend a demonstration, hand out fliers, or help their relatives participating in anti-American groups. They might even provide financial support to groups that support this view - much like those loyal Irish-American families who provided support to the Irish Republican Army.

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ADIL E. SHAMOO: Mind-reading technology threatens our liberties

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As our nation waits for a presidential decision on our direction in Afghanistan, Americans have also had time to reflect on our Afghanistan policy.  No longer are we in Afghanistan for the clear mission of removing al-Qaida bases; many of those have moved on to Pakistan.  Instead, what was once perceived as a decisively clear action has become morally murky eight years later.

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Introduction

We, the undersigned, are concerned Iraqis, living in Iraq and outside Iraq, men and women, professionals and intellectuals, who recognize that a semblance of progress towards peace and stability has been made in our beloved Iraq, the cradle of human civilization. However, the path towards realizing a sustainable state of stability, justice, peace, and democracy remains long and tortuous, and the challenges are immense. We support the unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops and presence from Iraq. We strongly believe that Iraq must have full sovereignty as a unified democratic non--sectarian state with equal rights and justice to all of its citizens, irrespective of race, creed, religion, color, ethnic origin, beliefs, gender, or tribal affiliation and without the presence of any foreign military forces.

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Iraq: Nightmare or New Democracy? Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | July 24, 2009 Editor: Jen Doak
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Parliament members are afraid to attend meetings. Iraq's nascent economy is deteriorating.  Hundreds of armed militias are ready to fight for their own interests. This is Iraq today. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki met this week to discuss the future of Iraq. In a joint news conference, Obama acknowledged the challenges facing Iraq. More importantly, the president emphasized that Iraq needs to work for "national unity." With this statement, Obama refers to the nature and will of the Iraqi people. While Iraq could easily become Obama's nightmare with a policy that emphasizes sectarian divisions, a national unity framework will help Iraq become a new democracy in the Middle East. The current deterioration in Iraq has made advisors and pundits (many of whom supported the initial invasion) fearful of pulling out U.S. troops. The misleading terms of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) means U.S. troops are more involved than expected.  The terms of the SOFA called for withdrawal of troops from the cities, for example, but the city limit lines were drawn within previous borders of the cities, allowing troops to be positioned in what was once considered part of the city

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As the swine flu threat level grew at the end of April, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan said, "it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."

While the statement is technically correct, the director-general could have expressed the threat differently. WHO, as the organization most responsible in leading efforts on behalf of global health, should have been more careful to avoid adding heat to a potentially combustible discussion of swine flu. Instead of promoting a rational, reasoned response to the crisis, Chan's statement helped inflame sentiment against immigrants in the United States and across the globe.

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Obama's Speech: Vexing Issues Adil E. Shamoo | June 10, 2009 Editor: Emily Schwartz Greco
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President Barack Obama began the dialogue between the West and the Muslim and Arab worlds by directly confronting the vexing issues between them. The new tone is devoid of arrogance and emphasizes peaceful coexistence — in contrast to the prior administration's bellicose tone and militaristic policy.

The speech Obama delivered in Cairo deemphasized the U.S. conflict with Iran, reached out to moderates, and didn't blame the entire Islamic world for actions of a small minority of "violent extremists." Moreover, he focused everyone's attention on the most important issues in the Middle East.

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Adil E. Shamoo

I agree a great deal with Stephen Zunes's assessment regarding the new administration. And I derive most of my attitude toward this administration on foreign policy from the people appointed to run it. The appointments are in line with standard Democratic Party line on foreign policy. The Democratic Party leadership is derived from the realists' school of thought, as is the Republican leadership. This means that the moral component in our foreign policy is lacking despite some claims to the contrary. Of course, when the moral component accidentally matches our interest, we use it, and when it doesn't we discard it.

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