New America's Nir Rosen on Iraqi Refugee Crisis

From NewAmerica.net:

While the public gaze is fixated on the reasons for and success of the Iraq war, few policy analysts, commentators, and journalists are paying attention to the largest refugee problem in the Middle East since 1948. New America Foundation Fellow Nir Rosen-internationally recognized for his groundbreaking journalism on Iraq since the beginning of the war in April of 2003—will present his piece titled "The Flight from Iraq" which is the cover story in Sunday May 13, 2007 edition of the New York Times.

The figures are startling—nearly 2 million Iraqis have fled Iraq for neighboring countries and another 1.9 million Iraqis have been internally displaced amounting to roughly 15% of the Iraqi population abandoning their homes. Meanwhile, since 2003, the United States has only allowed in 466 Iraqis. Compounding the damage to Iraq, the greater issue of concern is the destabilizing effects this will have on Iraq's neighbors who have absorbed both the refuges and the political and economic baggage that accompany them. This all leads Rosen to contend that the spillover from the Iraq war has already transformed the Iraq War into a regional conflict.

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[UberTankred]

@PERIZ99 in the news they said sexual assault. now did they actually rape her or try to rape her?

[UberTankred]

what the hell is ray sefo doing at a press conference about iraq? he doesn't know shit about politics!

[rachelgolem]

Amy Goodman didn't go to Egypt because she was afraid Far Rosen would make fun of her if she got raped.

[alln205]

The truth is that Bush and the NeoCons were right. They followed theory of Russian refusnick Natan Sharansky. According Sharansky if you create democracies and remove dictatorships, those countries will cease to be agressive. So Bush and the NeoCons decided to use Iraq as an example and to create the first experimental Arab democracy. The idea was to create a democratic domino effect and its worked as first Iran and now most Arab countries take in the example democratic Iraq. Nir is an idiot.

[PERIZ99]

Making fun of a woman who's been raped is as low as you can get. Nir Rosen is one big asshole..

[EdugeBDroN]

Is this Rosen the Rosen of Aipac that gave to israel  US top secret to Israel ? or is it another one

[damasgate]

what a hoe.

[damasgate]

This one time I stopped Nir Rosen from stepping on a land mine. He said thanks but I asked him for money. He didn't give me money. So I told him he was a douche. So Mr. Rosen apologized to me personally. Sarah Palin mediated this crisis.

Vote for Stephen Harper. The voice of peace.

Love, peace and genocide.

[amblonyx]

Amen to that - hypnotic eyes, too (but unfortunately with a voice that could lull you to sleep).

[ocmozfan]

Nir Rosen is ridiculously sexy.