Obama’s Iraq Speech Senator Barack Obama said the United States should immediately start removing one to two combat brigades from Iraq a month, with a goal of withdrawing all combat troops by the end of next year and leaving a substantial presence of American forces for a limited humanitarian mission. “The best way to protect […]
Two of the Seven NYT Op-Ed Soldiers Have Died in Iraq Two of the seven soldiers who wrote the New York Times op-ed piece criticizing U.S. counterinsurgency strategy 3 ½ weeks ago have been killed in Iraq. Yance T. Gray and Omar Mora died Monday in a vehicle accident in Baghdad. The AP has […]
The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is an extremely influential, pro-business right-wing think tank founded in 1943 by Lewis H. Brown. It promotes the advancement of free enterprise capitalism, and succeeds in placing its people in influential governmental positions. It is the center base for many neo-conservatives. Originally set up as a […]
Condi, however, is on T.V. this morning preaching the Gospel. I like her better when she plays the piano…
There’s a remarkable document coming our way from an unlikely source. John Dean, of Watergate Fame, has become quite a political and legal commentator. His new book, Broken Government, is about the transformation [deterioration] of the Republican Party. He says what many of us already think, that the Republican Party has become dangerous. When we […]
No Middle Way in Iraq Throughout 2007, Frederick W. Kagan and AEI’s Iraq Planning Group have monitored the situation in Iraq. In January, Kagan released his phase I report, Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq, which urged a rapid scale-up and military surge to clear and hold key points in Iraq. Phase II focused […]
From Dan Froomkin: New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani reviews Jack Goldsmith’s new book, "The Terror Presidency." "The portrait of the Bush administration that Mr. Goldsmith — who resigned from the Office of Legal Counsel in June 2004, only nine months after assuming the post — draws in this book is a devastating one. […]
I was looking at this on The Next Hurrah. It’s there to talk about the war and things now. But I was thinking about 9/11. A morning patient came in that day and asked, "Have you heard? something’s happening in New York. I heard it on the radio." We went into our lounge and turned […]
State of the Union, January 2006 …Terrorists like bin Laden are serious about mass murder — and all of us must take their declared intentions seriously. They seek to impose a heartless system of totalitarian control throughout the Middle East, and arm themselves with weapons of mass murder. Their aim is to seize power in […]