More on Iraq and Wikileaks

07Apr10

I’m turning to Stephen Walt: This tells me that this incident wasn’t unusual, which is of course why no disciplinary action was taken against the personnel involved. What is different in this case is that two Reuters journalists got killed, and eventually a video got leaked and put on the internet. And if this particular episode is […]

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Tags: afghanistan, glenn greenwald, Iraq, stephen walt, war, war in afghanistan, war in iraq, War on Terror, wikileaks

Greenwald on the Reality of War

07Apr10

Alright, one more before I go to bed. This one on the Wikileaks controversy. I’ll let Glenn Greenwald do the talking, with the caveat that this is not unique to the U.S. military–it’s worth keeping in mind that we still have some sense of the devastation of civilian casualty, whereas so many other countries and […]

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Tags: counterinsurgency, glenn greenwald, greenwald, Iraq, military, reuters, war, wikileaks

Breaking: McCain Supports Obama Iraq Plan

26Feb09

Via HuffPo: “They’re going to present us their recommendations. It’s their plan,” he said. “From what I know about it, I agree with it.” For McCain, the plan has virtue because it is backed by the generals and the ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker. “I like it best because it’s what Ambassador Crocker and General […]

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Tags: 17000 troops, afghanistan, budget, david petraeus, Iraq, john mccain, mccain, Obama, petraeus, surge

Grandpa’s Senile

07Jul08

For a good laugh, Politico posted an article today about how McCain plans to balance the budget. We can expect articles later about his plans to turn lead into gold, Amy Winehouse into Ken Seeley, and a Dolorian into a Time Machine (hey, he’s just as crazy as Christopher Lloyd), but until then, here are […]

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Tags: afghanistan, alchemy, Amy Winehouse, baby boomers, Back to the Future, balanced budget, blogosphere, conservative, daily kos, deficit, economy, Iraq, john, john mccain, Ken Seeley, lead into gold, mccain, medicaid, medicare, Politico, republicans, social security, tax cuts, taxes, war in afghanistan, war in iraq

Hey, Remember When Obama Really Wasn’t That Great?

13May08

I barely do. Honestly. While I may have become a believer in Obama, I certainly wasn’t always. While part of that is people like me coming around to him (and abandoning my tragically less electable Joe Biden, who should be the Secretary of State in the Obama administration), the other story, one that has been […]

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Tags: Barack, Biden, blue states, caucus, change, Clinton, criticism, Democratic, Edwards, election, Hillary, Iowa, Iraq, New Hampshire, Obama, overhaul, Primary, War on Terror, website