Somewhere there is an Al Queda terriorist doing the happy dance because the U.S. took out Al-Zarqawi, and now he gets to be top dog and call the shots and prove his cunning and his devotion to Islam.
Not that Al-Zarqawi didn’t deserve his end, but chopping off the head of a hydra isn’t usually considered [...]

Someone needs to get Pat Buchannan to a doctor. He’s showing leftist tendencies. Maybe he should be sent to a Republican Conversion Camp to cure him of this disorder.

The 9-11 terrorists were over here because we were over there. They are not trying to convert us. They are killing us to drive us out of [...]

Exactly my point:

If under those terms Don Rumsfeld or any other administration official ever came before the Senate and acknowledged a miscalculation of any sort in this large enterprise, would Mr. Biden or the others accept the admission in good faith and build from it, or would they flog it as an admission of failure [...]

One individual has taken issue with my post yesterday, and I deserved it. I was incorrect in asserting that the US could have done something to quell the insurgency. There really is nothing we could have done, short of being complete and utter bastards. Many if not most of the insurgents are transplants and not even [...]

The debate about Iraq is heating up again, mostly thanks to all the sunshine The White House is blowing these days. I don’t suppose it should surprise anyone. The policy machine has been spinning yarn inconsistent with assessments of the commanders in the field from the beginning.
I hesitate to draw comparisons to Vietnam, but there [...]

I’ve read two reactions to the vote in Iraq. One from The Opinion Journal and one from The Nation. Basically they’re polar opposites of each other. I’ll start with The Nation.

The election results are in: Iraqis voted overwhelmingly to throw out the US-installed government of Iyad Allawi, who refused to ask the United States to [...]

Today in the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal, Brendan Miniter comments on Germany and France’s sudden support for democracy in Iraq…now that most of the hard work has been done. Capitializing on and continuing with the George Bush as cowboy metaphor, Miniter likens the European nations to wayward cattle and Rice as Bush’s most trusted [...]

Today in the Washington Post:

…Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba attributed the [Abu Ghraib] scandal to the willful actions of a small group of soldiers and to “a failure of leadership” and supervision by brigade and lower-level commanders. …
But several senators challenged the notion that low-ranking soldiers could have devised the particularly humiliating measures on [...]

I got an email from a friend of mine, chiding me for my Amero-centric response to the events in Spain following the terrorist attacks. I was also given a lecture about the American imperialist actions in Iraq questioning our imposition of democracy on the Arab world.
First of all, I don’t care what your opinons about [...]

Nicholas De Genova, a professor at Columbia University, recently spoke at a teach in on said campus. Speaking of the war in Iraq Mr. Genova said “If we really (believe) that this war is criminal … then we have to believe in the victory of the Iraqi people and the defeat of the U.S. war [...]