Monthly Archives: December 2006

“Joining us now, retired U.S. Army Colonel Pat Lang, former head of Middle East intelligence over at the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency. Pat, thanks very much for coming in. COL. PAT LANG, U.S. ARMY (RET.): My pleasure. BLITZER: First … Continue reading →

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/18/surging_to_defeat_in_iraq.php

According to all the talk in Washington, the "plan" whipped up by AEI’s Fred Kagan is likely to be mostly implemented by President Bush when he stops stalling about his policy in Iraq.  The "plan" can be found below at … Continue reading →

Below you will find a Power Point (what else?) presentation on the recent AEI analytic meeting run by one of the Kagans.  The cast of contributers at the end reads very much like one of the great neocon "papers" done … Continue reading →

"The Army, meanwhile, is considering ways it can speed up the creation of two additional combat brigades _ a move intended to expand the pool of active-duty combat brigades in order to relieve some of the strain on the Army … Continue reading →

Lieberman said the senators met with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, and urged him to break his ties with Muqtada al-Sadr and disarm the anti-U.S. cleric’s Mahdi Army militia, which has been blamed along with Sunni Arab insurgents for … Continue reading →

David Brooks tells us today that American withdrawal from Iraq will leave a disrupted region in such a state that a general regional war initially centered in Iraq will result and he compares that coming war to the "Thirty Years … Continue reading →

We have this from out brother "pbrownlee." "Let us not forget the sage: Mencken (Baltimore Evening Sun, 26 July 1920): "The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his … Continue reading →

"Regarding early parliamentary elections, which the opposition is calling for, and Nasrallah’s claims that the "majority will change" if early elections are held, Siniora asked: "How is Nasrallah forecasting the results of the election? Can he tell the future by … Continue reading →