Kanan Makiya

March 24, 2007
Critic of Hussein Grapples With Horrors of Post-Invasion Iraq

Mr. Morse mentioned the pressure that Hillary Rodham Clinton was facing to apologize for her Senate vote authorizing President Bush to go to war.

Mr. Makiya stared into his glass of red wine. "That’s so Maoist," he said. "People shouldn’t feel the need to apologize. What is there to apologize for?"

March 29, 2007


April 18, 2007
Kanan Makiya: Changing Assumptions on Iraq

Makiya now questions his assumptions in supporting the war. He says the Americans made many mistakes, but the biggest mistakes were made by Iraq's new leaders.