Iraqi Navy: Progress, Prospects, and Problems
Yesterday I had an interesting conference call with Royal Navy Captain Paul Abraham. He is the Director of Maritime Strategic Transition Team in Iraq. The call focused on the development …
Obama Admits Surge Worked, and DEMOCRATS Are Responsible
What we have to do is to begin a phased redeployment to send a clear signal to the Iraqi government that we are not going to be there in perpetuity. …
Where Obama fears to tread…
H/T for the heads up to KURU Lounge! While the hopeful POTUS DNC candidate jets around Europe and the Middle East to meet with leaders he will be “dealing with …
Hollywood at War
In 2007 through to present, we’ve seen about 8 anti-war movies: The Jacket (2006) Home of the Brave (2006) In the Valley of Elah Redacted Rendition Grace is Gone Stop-Loss …
Some Iraqi War News Not Reported
Ed Morrissey describes the remnants of Sadr’s army like so: The remnants of the Mahdi Army have gone underground, forming an armed network on a much smaller scale. How small? …
Shaping the Battle Space
Some journalists sneered at my work. The most common criticism was that I lacked objectivity, because I called enemy fighters “terrorists” for murdering civilians, or I openly admitted that I …
Obama: I Will Have Credibility With Muslim World [Reader Post]
This video came out, uhhh, early in the, uhhh, primaries, but now that Dr. Smooth is the, umm, presumptive nominee and more people will start, uhhh, paying attention, it may …
Amateur Hour: Obama’s Big Flip-Flop on Iraq [Reader Post]
As much as CNN tries to cover for the Obamessiah, even they acknowledge at the end of the report that is what he is doing. And while the story is …
Sunni Sheik on meeting GWB
Excerpts from Eli Lake’s NY Sun article on Sheik Ahmad al-Rishawi today. “Al Qaeda is an ideology,” Sheik Ahmad said. “We can defeat them inside Iraq and we can defeat …
Is the Islamic world rejecting al-Qaeda theology, thanks to the War in Iraq?
We’ve often heard critics of the war in Iraq assert that we’ve diverted attention away from the real war on terror, and need to focus attention on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan …