A LIGHT IS FLICKERING. Twelve to eighteen months now, and they can stand up and we can stand down. Maybe. General Casey and Ambassador Khalilzad promised that within that timeframe, the Iraqi government will a) disarm the militias, b) quell the insurgency, and c) reach political compromise on the sectarian divisions that have torn the […]
Spencer Ackerman
Spencer Ackerman, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, is a senior reporter for The Washington Independent.
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MOLTO MARIO.
MOLTO MARIO. God bless you, Mario Loyola of National Review. During these dark times, who will stand up to defend the Iraqi experiment in democracy? You will! To wit: But as bad as the security situation is, I think Americans would feel differently if they knew the tenor of the political debate in Iraq — […]
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YOU’VE DONE NOTHING BUT CAUSE HARM.
YOU’VE DONE NOTHING BUT CAUSE HARM. Matt had Clash-blogging; I’ll have Avail-blogging. The latest Mason-Dixon poll has George Allen slightly ahead of Jim Webb, albeit still within the margin of error. No one knows how the race will end up, but one group that had Allen’s number way, way before Macaca-gate was the brilliant 1990s […]
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SO ABOUT ISRAEL.
SO ABOUT ISRAEL. First Ehud Olmert launched an immoral war against Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s aggression against Israel. Then the war embittered nearly the entire country against Olmert, making his hold on power tenuous only months after his massive electoral victory. Now, the once-centrist leader has, in a single blow, decimated his ties to […]
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THE DOUG FEITH WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
THE DOUG FEITH WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. From Mike Rubin and Andy McCarthy over at The Corner and Eli Lake of The New York Sun comes word of a truly bizarre NRSC NRCC attack on a Democratic candidate for the PA-10, Chris Carney. Liddy DoleTom Reynolds‘s forces have sent out a mailing accusing Carney […]
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WHEN THERE’S NO ONE LEFT TO SWIFTBOAT.
WHEN THERE’S NO ONE LEFT TO SWIFTBOAT. Pierce mentioned this last week, but it deserves all the attention it can get. Kevin Tillman, U.S. Army Ranger and brother of fallen American hero Pat Tillman, joins the ranks of the shrill: Somehow the more soldiers that die, the more legitimate the illegal invasion becomes. Somehow American […]
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War in Iraq, 2003-??
Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, is an odd place to discover the possible fate of Iraq. But the fort, a 90-year-old Army base in the midst of suburbia, plays host to the Army’s communications command, which has quite a lot invested in that country’s future. For the moment, the United States has 140,000 troops stationed in […]
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Against Democracy
A foreign policy for the United States should pass the basic test of advancing American interests and upholding American ideals. A foreign policy doctrine — that is, the subordination of particular foreign-policy options to the application of a general principle — must be such that the benefits to U.S. interests and ideals clearly overwhelm any […]
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A Hawk for All Seasons
It took all of two days for Joe Lieberman to jettison the high-minded justifications for his post-primary campaign against Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont. While in his concession speech on Tuesday, Lieberman repeatedly blamed the “politics of partisan polarization” for his stunning loss to an unknown challenger, he pivoted on Thursday to touting what is […]
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The Collapse
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War by Anthony Shadid (Henry Holt & Co., 448 pages, $26.00) The relentless carnage and rising illiberalism of Iraq are inducing shellshock in the advocates of the war. Among conservatives, the palpable despair has prompted dead-enders at The Wall Street Journal to bitterly […]
