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Excusing the neocons
Kevin Drum, writing about Iraq, takes the neocons to task: David Rose’s Vanity Fair interview with the neocon elite is getting plenty of well-deserved attention this weekend. For one thing, it’s fun to...
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Film review: Fahrenheit 9/11
Well, I finally had the good sense to sign up for Netflix. It’s. The. Best. Thing. Ever. My queue tops out at about seventy films as of right now. Make that seventy DVDs, for a good number of my...
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Defining down the war
Matt Yglesisas on John McCain’s take on the situation in Iraq: “Any rational observer would say that if the war’s lost, then someone won the war,” according to John McCain, “Al Qaeda will win that...
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A lot like forty summers ago
I don’t write much about Iraq (nor a great deal about foreign or military affairs in general) for a very good reason: I’m simply not much of an expert. Fortunately, other people seem to know what...
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Public relations and perfect storms
Kevin Drum is impressed by the efforts of General Petraeus to market America’s surge strategy in Iraq: Five months ago Petraeus was guaranteeing to wavering Republicans that they’d see progress in...
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Choose your battlefields
Here’s a thought: we continually hear that we must stay in Iraq in order to wage the War on Terror, and that al-Qaeda in Iraq has materialized as a deadly foe. Hence retreating from Iraq would be...
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Iraq policy: just how crazy?
Matt Yglesias talks about possible motivations behind US policy in Iraq: …while the absence of political reconciliation is probably Iraq‘s biggest problem, it’s not a particularly large problem for the...
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