In watching the developments in the Middle East, these last few months I have to tell you that Iran is likely to be our next stop militarily. I do not believe this to be a choice of ours, but rather
Interesting word from basra by way of the London Times:
Young women are daring to wear jeans, soldiers listen to pop music on their mobile phones and bands are performing at wedding parties again.
All across Iraq’s second city
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BAGHDAD —FOX- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.
Rice, in
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With the Iraqi Army defeating Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra, the L.A. Times has moved on to tell its readers how terrible things might get in Najaf. Buried in the middle of the piece,
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Austin Bay, who I quote far too little:
Realclearpolitics.com featured last week’s Creators Syndicate newspaper column and the gents at Powerline commented. As the column attests, I saw the Basra and east Baghdad counter-militia operations very differently from the
BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a
First, the premise, at OTB:
America’s top military leader is warning about rapid withdrawal from Iraq.
The Joint Chiefs chairman has a word of warning to Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton: A rapid of withdrawal from Iraq
- I’m going to have to post a really good quip someday. Meanwhile, your humble webmaster got himself another Honorable Mention at the OTB Caption Contest.
- I said it last night; I had my doubts that Sadr was going to break
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Billy
“I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”
(McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)
I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the
