Krauthammer today: We don’t yet know if this strategy will work in mixed Sunni-Shiite neighborhoods. Nor can we be certain that this cooperation between essentially Sunni tribal forces and an essentially Shiite central government can endure. But what cannot be said — although it is now heard daily in Washington — is that the surge,… Continue reading
I agree with Jay: As for the whole withdraw-vs.-stick-it-out debate, I still want to hear the September report from Gen. Petraeus. I guess that makes me a stick-it-out guy these days. I don’t want to abandon Iraq to possible ‘ethnic cleansing, even genocide.’ But at the same time I know there are military reasons for… Continue reading
Michael Barone: In 1996, if Lamar Alexander had won 8,000 more votes in New Hampshire, he rather than Dole would have finished second to Pat Buchanan there and would have probably emerged as Buchanan’s chief rival—and thus the nominee, since in a one-on-one race any respectable candidate could have beaten Buchanan. Ouch.
I can’t say I’m a Michael Moore fan…not having seen any of his movies. On the other hand, I did enjoy watching him kick CNN’s butt….
The Flight of Al-Qaeda? Abu Ali said that on April 1, 2007, he and his people attacked al Qaeda in Buhriz for their crimes against Islam. He also said something that many Muslims have said to me: Al Qaeda are not Muslims. (Both Sunni and Shia have said nearly the exact same words, at times… Continue reading