War on Terror
Such letters aren’t usually (or now, to be honest with you) worthy of comment, but for some reason, this evening, I can’t resist. To quote John Leistritz of Pawtucket: President Bush’s so-called new strategy for the war in Iraq is actually more of the same — only it commits more U.S. troops to a region…
Of course, as Linda Chavez points out, there was a time when they did have a plan for staying, too: Democrats were early to recognize the threat of sectarian violence in Iraq and have consistently been skeptical of democracy taking hold in Iraq in an atmosphere of uncontrolled violence. For much of the war, prominent…
Garance Franke-Ruta of the American Prospect’s weblog misunderstands David Brooks’ New York Times column on the Iraq surge. Here’s Ms. Franke-Ruta’s criticism of Brooks first… I had to read this column a couple of times before I could get what exactly David Brooks was trying to say, but as far as I can make out…
1. In case you missed it in the MSM reporting, there is a definite timetable in the President’s Iraq speech…To establish its authority, the Iraqi government plans to take responsibility for security in all of Iraq’s provinces by November.This implies that the President is counting on Iraqi army and national police force training to be…
Like Rich Lowry, I think that the President’s new Iraq plan (“the Surge”) is “better late than never.” And that applies to more than just changes in the military operations side of things and includes such “hearts and minds” actions as giving ground commanders more walking around money and the implementation of an Iraq Oil…
Via NRO: The president’s speech was adequate. He said the right things. The question of course is whether or not the plan he outlined can be implemented. In terms of substance, the president’s plan is not so much a true innovation as an adaptation to the changing circumstances in Iraq. Until February of last year,…
The Congress shall have power…To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water; To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years; To provide and maintain a navy; To make rules for the…
I wish I were confident that we will soon reach a time when sentiments the likes of this, from Mark Steyn, can safely be ignored as repetitive: Many of us think about the long-term shifts necessary to win this struggle: euthanizing the United Nations and overhauling other malign and anachronistic institutions. Fat chance. Mustaf Jama’s…
Retired General Barry McCaffrey, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at the United States Military Academy, and who has toured Iraq several times since the overthrow of Saddam Husein, doesn’t think any plan centered on reducing U.S Forces in Iraq to a small number of advisors as quickly as 2008, as suggested by the Iraq Study…
Today’s Projo includes an unsigned op-ed on the Iraq Study Group report. The op-ed praises consensus, largely for its own sake… The commission, with no particular political axes to grind, declared that U.S. policy is not working and the situation is grave and deteriorating…. In any event, we hope that the commission’s rigorous report will…
