About those Iraqi troops: “The U.S. military’s effort to train Iraqi forces has been rife with problems, from officers being sent in with poor preparation to a lack of basic necessities such as interpreters and office materials, according to internal Army documents. The shortcomings have plagued a program that is central to the U.S. strategy …
Archives for November 2006
A Sign of the Times
I guess this is the sort of thing we are going to have to be arguing over in perpetuity: Six Muslim religious leaders were taken off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis on Monday evening and detained for several hours after some passengers and crew members complained of behavior they deemed suspicious, including prayers at …
Democrats Can’t Win, Republicans Can’t Govern
Now only half true.
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Open Thread
You won’t have this blogger to kick around for most of the day.
Iraq Bits
A few developments from the war that never ends. * The latest poll: Iraqis overwhelmingly want the US to leave. That includes a solid majority of both the Shia and Sunni communities. Kurds, of course, gambled on the US protecting their separatism forever and would like to see us hang around a bit longer. * …
Tom Noe Goes To Jail
Thought that this deserved a mention. 18 years, the judge says of his scheming to defraud the state pension system (among other things): “Based on a review of the record, a short prison term would demean your conduct.” Some days I wonder what the FBI gets done given all of the cooperating Republican witnesses they …
Clash of The Titans
Pay attention to this initiative from Barney Frank, via an insightful post by Steve Benen: Many businesses are trying to shed high health care premiums. Frank hopes that workers and businesses can agree on a government-administered plan paid for by workers that would reduce burdens on businesses, which would pass on savings to employees through …