…when a nation withdrew from a remarkable victory, and its press and the party in power acted as though it were a defeat? Don’t think so. Well, with the enemy’s knowledge that Obama has no commitment to returning if the … Continue reading →
What important military defeats has America ever known? If you don’t count the South in the Civil War, we have a single one: Vietnam. The consequences of that defeat, in a land so far away, were easy for Americans to … Continue reading →
I don’t know why I bother with the AP anymore. Maybe it’s because their articles permeate most of the newspapers in the country, and become the reality for so many readers. And so today we have the re-opening of the … Continue reading →
Wonderful news from Iraq. But who cares, right? Leave it to the historians; maybe they will. I care, of course. But then, who am I? Just an evil neocon. [ADDENDUM: There’s bad news, as well. But this sort of thing … Continue reading →
The title of this post was inspired by the saying, “Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?”—one of the stupidist slogans of the peace movement of the 60s. The news that Iraq has ratified a formal US/Iraq military and … Continue reading →
It’s pretty much “mission accomplished” in Iraq. But it’s a victory we’re not willing to openly claim. In another world and time, this war would have been lauded as one of the least brutal in history, although it was fought … Continue reading →
One of the main reasons I voted for President Bush in 2004 was that I wanted to give Iraq the chance that Vietnam never had (see this and this for details of the endgame in Vietnam and the role our … Continue reading →
Back in 2004, Iraq was not only an issue in the Presidential campaign, it was the issue. Now, four years later and in the closing days of another race for an office that has as one of its most essential … Continue reading →
This is shocking, if true.
Continue reading →If the AP says the war in Iraq is practically won, that’s news—even though one of the co-authors of the piece is John Burns, who has always been more measured and judicious about the war than most journalists. But I … Continue reading →
At the end of January of 2007, shortly after Bush proposed the surge, Barack Obama countered with a Senate bill featuring a plan for withdrawal from Iraq by March 31, 2008, which would have been fourteen months later. Fortunately for … Continue reading →
The worm has turned, according to an article by George Packer in the New Yorker entitled “Obama’s Iraq Problem.” Yes, Obama’s Iraq problem.
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