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 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 ...
So the pacifist view is dim and dishonest. They want Bush to lose, they don’t care who they have to exploit or manipulate or who else will suffer to make it happen. They don’t recognize that Iraq is just one battlefield in the never-ending Jihad. They deny the Jihad is even real...
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!
Iraq: Elections, Constitution, and Government (Updated January 26, 2007)IraqGovernment(Foreign)ElectionsMilitary operationsTransitionsMilitary occupational specialtiesElections in 2005 for a transition government (January 30, 2005), a permanent constitution (October 15), and a permanent (four year) ...
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...
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...
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...
5:45 AMI was glad to see a hint of humility in the president’s speech on Iraq. It should have gone a lot further. Humility is not very popular with politicians nowadays. We want peace without repentance, joy without conversion. But Jesus says, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His...
He has also been Ambassador to Iraq, and the Representative of the U.S. to the United Nations. See, White House release, and transcript of White House event. This position has been vacant since last summer when Robert Zoellick left the DOS....