Patrick is right--there's something seriously sick in our political discourse when Ann Althouse can get a month on the most prestigious op-ed page in the country, with Tom Freidman and Maureen Dowd on full-time, while Hilzoy writes for a medium-readership blog (along with Publius, who...
Iraq
David at Danger Room has a couple very good posts on the possible origins of the EFPs being found in Iraq. He points out, as Andrew Cockburn noted last week,.
The "stab in the back" demagoguery becomes even more disgusting once you've read this. In fairness, it must be said that Bush's tax cut for the rich did allow Glenn.
The stab-in-the-back narrative is now in full gear. What Kaus merely abets, Glenn Reynolds, Mark Steyn, and the editors of Investors Business Daily push full throttle; America will lose because of the perfidy of liberals. The Surge is providing the proximate excuse. After four years...
As we noted a week ago during the Althouse "tiny prick" fiasco, of the targets of LGM's "adopt a wingnut" program, Mickey Kaus has consistently reacted in the most cordial.
Make sure to read the NYT article on the slides generated during planning for the Iraq War. The slides themselves are available from GWU. Hilzoy has good commentary.The story, incidentally,.
I'm in the midst of reading FM 3-24, the new counter-insurgency manual for the Army and Marine Corps. While I expected a sophisticated document, the degree to which the manual draws on work in the modern social sciences is really impressive. On culture:3-37. Culture is...
In addition to an article on the Iranian IEDs on Friday, and an article on the aluminum tubes in 2002, Michael Gordon co-wrote Cobra II, which condemened the administration's war.
I do wish people would stop describing support of the invasion of Iraq as tantamount to support of "pre-emptive" war as a doctrine. Pre-emptive and preventive are clearly distinct from.
Nick Turse has a fine discussion of the disastrous role that the Air Force is playing in the war in Iraq. The contribution of the Air Force is intentionally understated. Turse concentrates on the most secretive aspects of the bombing campaign in Iraq, pointing out...
(The people who did this are very worried)I'd rather not bother to explain why I was watching Fox News at the gym this afternoon during the first quarter of the.
The truck bomb that killed 130 today in Iraq is said to have wounded over 300. As is the case with American casualties, we focus on the dead. We should.