It’s difficult for me to express just how moronic this column is: THIS MAY sound like an extreme conclusion but, as Ari Bar Yossef, retired lieutenant-colonel and administrator of the Knesset’s Security Committee, writes in the army journal Ma’arachot, such cases of Islamist national suicide are not uncommon. He cites three such examples of Arab-Muslim […]
Tag: Iraq
Diavlogged with Michael Goldfarb yesterday, but gremlins got into the process somewhere, and only about twelve minutes survived. Here’s a bit from the remnant:
Everyone in the Middle East, apparently, but particularly the Saudis: The administration has long tried in vain to build Arab diplomatic and economic support for the Iraqi government. But the Arabs, l
Really, was it wise to publish Matt Duss so soon after the Scott Templeton fiasco? Makes me wonder if there’s even a place called “Iraq”; seriously, does anyone believe that “Fred and Kimberly Kagan” are actually real people? Isn’t it more likely that Duss simply manufactured them from whole cloth?
It’s sad and pathetic, in a truly hilarious kind of way, to watch as Stephen Hayes flails ineffectually at the notion that there was no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. We&
And when did the Weekly Standard start hiring twelve year olds?
SecDef Gates: “I worry that for many Europeans the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan are confused,” Mr. Gates said as he flew here to deliver an address at an international security conference. “I think that they combine the two,” he added. “Many of them, I think, have a problem with our involvement in Iraq and […]
Another day, another bad headline, this one from the UK Guardian (and repeated in many other papers). On the unspeakably horrible bombing in Baghdad today: “Female Suicide Bombers kill 72 people
While we’re on the topic of Slate contrarians, here’s Mickey reacting to the Korb/Katulis/Podesta op-ed: When you write a sentence like: the progress being made at the local level often un
Via Drum, John McCain: “I don’t know Mr. Kerik. I do know that I went to Baghdad shortly after the initial victory and met in Baghdad with (Ambassador Paul) Bremer and (Lt. Gen. Ricardo) Sanchez. And Kerik was there. Kerik was supposed to be there to help train the police force. He stayed two months […]
Bird Dog over at Tacitus channels Charles Krauthammer: For me, it’s hard to disagree with Krauthammer and this bleak situation. We need an aggressive policy of regime change for Iran, we need t