So, you write editorials for the Arab News, and I have to admit, it has been a tough week for you. After weeks of watching Al-Jazeera and reading the NY Times, you were probably convinced that the last bloodied American infidel to limp out of the region any day now. “We discovered that all what …
Foreign Affairs
A Tale of Two Cities- A Photo Essay
In San Francisco, people take to the streets to protest the “Bush Regime’s” unlawful war (Indymedia Photo). Loudly they denounce this unprovoked aggression. The status quo is always better than any bloodshed, particularly unilateral actions undertaken by 40 or so nations (Indymedia Photo). Here is what they wanted to stop (Jerome Delay – AP): It …
Those Funny French
Today, Jacques ChIraq, who has been an unending source of amusement, had this to say about post-war Iraq: “We are no longer in an era where one or two countries can control the fate of another country,” Chirac told a news conference after a meeting with U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers. “Therefore, the …
Perspective
Michael J. Totten provides a new look at the war in Iraq. (via RealPoilitik)
Basketball and Beer
If you haven’t noticed, I did not post much this past weekend. Although the war seems to be going pretty well, I need a break from it all. The death of Michael Kelly was absolutely awful, the loss of David Bloom equally so (go read Jarvis’s letter to his Bloom’s beautiful little girls). Every time …
Arab Street?
Charlie Company Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd ID faces the feared ‘Arab Street’ in downtown BAGHDAD. Maybe the fear-mongerers and those saying the war was going poorly were talking about something else.
Command Post
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