Baghdad fell five years ago today. If I understand the conservative blogs correctly, people like me were supposed to have been humiliated and distressed by the news; at the time, I was honestly relieved and mildly surprised that the city hadn't descended into a cauldron...
Iraq war
Got in a bit late, just in time to see Crocker discussing how great it was for the US economy that Iraq is buying a couple US aircraft... too bad.
This looks to me like a clean victory for Sadr. In the words of the immortal Jim Malone, if you open the door on these people, you have to be.
Defense News:The U.S. plans to urge Britain to launch a "surge" in Basra to combat increasing violence in the southern Iraqi region, the Sunday Mirror newspaper reported.Britain, which has around 4,100 troops in Iraq, transferred control to Iraqi forces in December last year but could...
I mentioned in this comment thread that Dress Blues wasn't one of my favorite songs from Jason Isbell's Sirens of the Ditch. I should probably add that one of the.
Did Ahmed Chalabi lie in order to press the United States to go into Iraq? This is a silly question; of course he lied, and of course he stole, and.
This paragraph is bad enough to be worth spending some time on:I did not believe the American-led coalition could prudently leave Iraq the day Baghdad fell. Coalition troops were essential to support a new Iraqi government.Translation: The people we turned Iraq over to would invite...
This is nothing new, but it's worth revisiting now and again. For the monthly cost of the war in Iraq, conservatively estimated for our purposes at $8 billion, the Pentagon.
But that doesn't mean the issue of the war should slip to the backburner of voters' consciences and therefore become less important to the presidential campaigns, as has apparently happened.I.
I've been waiting a bit before posting any thinking on the Surge and the drop in violence in Iraq, but I think it's time now for a few observations.First off, it is important to recognize that there has been a drop in violence. Our measures...
Standing at the podium this morning, drinking my coffee, waiting to start my class. . . "Professor Farley," a student says. "Yes?" "I was wondering. . . My dad is.