The conquest of Germany and Japan was not, in the largest sense, motivated by the belief that the German and Japanese people needed to be liberated from tyranny. We were happy enough to "liberate" them, but surely the Soviet Union was far more tyrannical than...
Iraq war
I mostly agree with what Ezra says here, here, and here about David Brooks Surge column. I would diverge slightly in regards to his discussion of the four trends that.
I've been off in some kind of alternate universe for the past several days, so forgive me for being quite probably the last person on the planet to drop his.
If Hillary comes out with a proposal for a Department of Anti-Robot Affairs, I'll switch my support. More seriously, the overall effect of "robot surges" seems to be to shift the cost of war from the blood side of the ledger to the treasure side....
This seems like kind of a big deal:Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric has been quietly issuing religious edicts declaring that armed resistance against U.S.-led foreign troops is permissible — a.
Like the President, I gave up golf in order to honor the sacrifice of our soldiers in Iraq. Last year, I gave up non-diet pop to honor our soldiers in.
And so it goes:U.S. forces are holding nearly all of these [24,000] persons indefinitely, without an arrest warrant, without charge, and with no opportunity for those held to defend themselves in a trial. While the United States has put in place a formal review procedure...
Via Phil Carter and Eli Lake, Paul Wolfowitz on the mistakes of the occupation:"One was enough troops for the major combat. A lot of people said we didn't have it,.
Fantastic:When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.But minutes into.
Phil Carter and Eli Lake, in reference to the article discussed here:Does it look to anyone else as if Eli is smoking a joint? One of the interesting things about Bloggingheads is that the discussants can't actually see one another; it's just a videotaped phone...
This article by Major Niel Smith and Colonel Seth MacFarland on the foundations of the "Anbar Awakening" strategy is a must read. Smith and MacFarland detail how they helped bring.
I guess that "purge" of the Iraqi Army wasn't as efficient as Mickey Kaus suggested...A company of Iraqi soldiers abandoned their positions on Tuesday night in Sadr City, defying American.