War on Terror
I’m not a dead-ender on Iraq, but I do think we’ve got to give the new–albeit too-long in coming–strategy time to work. I suspect readers will just breeze on past this post as many, probably most, already have their minds made up. To them, we are frozen in time: the situation in Iraq will always…
In response to the horrific story reported in the Pure Evil post, Victor Davis Hanson writes: …But what is strange about reading Michael Yon’s graphic descriptions from Iraq is that al Qaeda (or its kindred) seems almost in a single generation to be outdoing a millennium of savagery present in Greek history and myth. You…
Sometimes you read a story which shakes you to your core. Michael Ledeen’s Why Do The Iraqis Hate the Terrorists? did it for me: The horror of the terrorist onslaught rarely is brought home to the American public. Indeed, it is sometimes so grisly that not even American troops in the field can even talk…
Bob Owens of the Confederate Yankee blog would like to know what journalistic reasoning led the Associated Press to publish an unconfirmed report of sectarian violence in Iraq that turned out to be a hoax, while at the same time ignoring a strongly sourced story concerning an actual, verifiable Al-Qaida attack on an Iraqi village…On…
Word is that Iran is getting ready to finance and run a major offensive in Iraq this summer in and effort “to tip a wavering US Congress into voting for full military withdrawal.” Tehran’s strategy to discredit the US surge and foment a decisive congressional revolt against Mr Bush is national in scope and not…
A quick point about the Albanian terrorists who were arrested for plotting to wreak havoc at Fort Dix. They were initially discovered because of the vigilance of a local video store owner: On or about January 30, 2006, a representative of a retail store informed officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) that an…
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has taken on the role of leading advocate for a foreign policy of punishing allies and ignoring enemies. From Charles Bakst in today’s Projo…Whitehouse told me that unless Iraqi leaders see that the United States is serious about withdrawing troops, “They’re perfectly happy to have us there…
Here is the boilerplate from We Win, They Lose, a coalition of bloggers who seek to impress upon Congress that, no matter what history–revisionist or otherwise–you want to believe about the Iraq War, we need to be in it to win it.
The New York Times calls it a “new dynamic” (h/t Rich Lowry)…The turnabout began last September, when a federation of tribes in the Ramadi area came together as the Anbar Salvation Council to oppose the fundamentalist militants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia…. For all the sheiks’ hostility toward the Americans, they realized that they had…
The evidence indicates that the “surge” is working, at least in terms of improving the quality of life for the average Iraqi. Here’s a firsthand report from Rocco DiPippo, published in the American Thinker….Two weeks ago, I took another trip through Baghdad. I then headed south and eventually north to a small town close to…