Vietnam War 1963-1970 (10 years)= ~56,000 killed Iraq “Desert Storm”: (6 months) – 146 killed Iraq 2: 2003 – 2007 (less than 4 years) 3,051 So, normalized for time elapsed during a given war, soldiers killed during these wars have dropped by two orders of magnitude since WWII...
Abidjan, Ashgabat, Astana (2, Sorry Graham!), Baghdad (2), Beirut, Bridgetown, Chengdu, Chennai (3), Ciudad Juarez, Conakry, Dhaka, Guadalajara, Guangzhou, Guatemala City, Ho Chi Minh, Iraq, Islamabad (2), Jakarta, Jeddah (2), Jerusalem, Khartoum, Kinshasa, La Paz, Lima (2), Majuro...
the AMT problem will be fixed, domestic appropriations will grow by 4 percent a year, and Iraq and Afghanistan spending will be at the midpoint between a slow and fast drawdown. The
” the idea that sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq is going to transform the reality of U.S. defeat reflects the self-delusion of adictatorial mind. Bush’s approach to Iraq is as out of touch with reality as the command-economy follies of Joseph Stalin or Mao Zedong: the resemblance ...
In the crowd, signs recalled the November elections that defeated the Republican congressional majority in part because of Bush’s Iraq policy. “I voted for peace,” one said. They think voting for peace will produce it. QED. 27 January 2007 ...
It is a poor-poor defence when Americans say, “It was their (incumbent Iraqis’) decision to hang him. We had nothing to do with it.” Yeah sure buddy, we believe you as much now as when you told the world that Iraq was sitting on a tranche-load of Weapons of Mass Destructions!
January 31, 2007 Jon Ponder The Iraq Study Group recommended ramping up diplomacy and putting more responsibility for patrolling the streets on Iraqi forces. It pointedly did not reccomend escalating the war. And yet, here is its co-chairman, the Republican operative and former Sec. of State...
Today is going to be a busy day. But let’s start with some health care talk in the morning. I just got off a call with Harry Reid, where much of the talk focused, with good reason, on the mess in Iraq and the President’s posturing on Iran. However, I’ll leave that to the...
David Leonhardthas a nice piece in the New York Timeson the opportunity cost of the trillion dollar Iraq war. Leonhardt does a good job of getting the concept across without actually using the economic jargon. Coincidentally, I have a piece in tomorrow’s (Thursday’s) Fin, making the same...
When the president spoke of the necessity for victory in Iraq, none of the Democratic hopefuls for his job came to their feet. Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton didn’t even applaud from their seats. The camera panned the audience from left to right — the aisle between them was clearly vis...