Iyad Allawi
Iyad Allawi, The Next Beer Is On Me
While the votes aren’t yet in for Iraq’s provincial elections, The New York Times reports that it looks like former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s secular Iraqi National List has won a plurality of seats in Salahuddin Province, a majority-Sunni province north of Baghdad. Allawi was one of the foreign ex-leaders I singled out in my [...]
The Great Bush Leadership Casualties: Foreign Edition
Here are the tales of six leaders — or, in some cases, would-be-leaders — who learned the hard way that, contrary to the way it looked in Sept. 2001, it actually made more sense to be against Bush than to be with him.
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