Progress: Civil war has been averted in Iraq and Iranian intervention there has “ceased to exist,” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said yesterday. Super. So what will next week’s American casualties have died for? Let’s go home.
Archives for September 2007
Greater Moments In Outreach
Does the Iraqi government have a home video showing mercenaries from the Blackwater firm firing wild into a crowd of Iraqi civilians? If so it could be very, very bad news. Words can inform but pictures, especially moving pictures, carry emotional impact in a way that written accounts almost never do. Fairly specific stories about …
Great Moments In Outreach
As everyone knows, hearts and minds are the key to winning counterinsurgency war. Failing that, they’re also the best place to drop a target with one round. A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of “bait,” such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, …
NYT/Open Thread
From the comments: Kinda swamped the next two days, so hopefully Tim can pick up the slack till Wednesday. Translation: Hopefully this whole NY Times mess is forgotten by then… You saw through my scheme! Months ago, when I was scheduling a bunch of work-related things for this for this time period, I was merely …
Steelers Open Thread
Go Steelers. Kinda swamped the next two days, so hopefully Tim can pick up the slack till Wednesday. *** Update *** A decisive Steelers win.
Making It Up As They Go Along
Nothing in modern politics seems to defy the laws of physics more than the Rudolph Giuliani campaign for the Republican nomination. Watching a thrice-married serial adulterer who supports abortion rights and gay rights and knows less most policy matters than your average rhododendron try to win over Dobson and Tancredo’s loyal minions has the roughly …
Saturday Open Thread
Mountaineers v. ECU. Go Eers! *** Update *** 48-7, and kinda boring. Not the kind of game I was hoping for, since I think they needed a tough game before heading to Florida.