Additionally, Bacevich illustrates how sound military strategy dictates that when a surge is working, it's time to fall back on "one of the oldest principles of generalship: when you find an opportunity, exploit it. Where you gain success, … [Read more...]
US Soldiers Executing Iraqis: Who Are the Terrorists Now?
So many questions. Sadly, many of these questions have obvious answers making them rhetorical. First, what is the most accurate way to categorize such incidents: War crime? Terrorism? Genocide? I don't buy any "fog of war" or "we're … [Read more...]
Iraqi Tragedy and Republican Partisanship, an Update
Again, an Administration that actually cared about outcomes would have responded decisively to the Blackwater incidents. Such an Administration would have welcomed investigations and taken immediate steps to reassure the Iraqis.Instead, the … [Read more...]
Bill Richardson; “We’ve waited Long Enough “
We've waited "Long Enough" for an answer on how many residual troops the other Democratic Presidential Candidates will leave behind in Iraq. That's why the name of our campaigns' new TV ad is entitled "Long Enough."Bill … [Read more...]
House minority leader John Boehner: fallen American soldiers are “a small price”
BLITZER: How much longer will U.S. taxpayers have to shell out $2 billion a week or $3 billion a week as some now are suggesting the cost is going to endure? The loss in blood, the Americans who are killed every month, how much longer do … [Read more...]
I was on NECN tonight
... again, on NewsNight with Braude, along with Republican political consultant Rob Gray. We talked Iraq; the presidential address tonight; the timing of the assassination of Sheik Sattar Abu Reesha; the presidential race generally; Norman … [Read more...]
A Zeno-esque definition of Iraq success
... as channelled through the mind of John Hodgman on the Daily Show. Check out the pithy graphic at the end ... "So long as you refuse to ever acknowledge failure, success becomes eternal -- a downward curve always approaching failure, but … [Read more...]
Moving on
MoveOn.org's full-page ad in the NY Times has Republicans with their panties in a bunch fighting a grave new threat, mostly due to the ad's frankly childish and ill-advised pun on Gen. Petraeus' name: "Gen. Petraeus or Gen. … [Read more...]
Update: the opposition to the Iraq War has died.
According to a Democratic Congressional Staff member, opposition to the Iraq War has disappeared. Here is the quote as it appears in E.J. Dionne's column today in the Washington Post:Privately, Democrats … [Read more...]
Time to revoke DOMA – in Manchester today with John Edwards
Further, Edwards stated that any civil union or gay marriage should receive, and is entitled to receive all the "1100" protections that married couples receive under federal law. He did go on to say that while he fully supports civil … [Read more...]
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