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[Dr Nasir Khan] The Forgotten U.S. War on the Iraqi People « Dr Nasir Khan: . While the Study found that “the surge has no observable effect”, it is also deliberately misleading. The Study suggestion that the “surge” designed “to improve the materials condition of life and create a breathing space for political compromise between major factions” in Baghdad is a falsehood. The “surge” is part of the Republicans propaganda campaign which is designed to mislead the American public and provides John McCain with something to say about a murderous Occupation. The reality is that the Occupation remains the root causes of violence and destruction in Iraq.
[Rational Review » RRND Commentary] Will transplanting the strategy in Iraq to Afghanistan save the ...: On top of that, to accomplish this rescue, they both have called for an Iraq-like surge of U.S. troops into Afghanistan beyond the 8,000 more that President Bush is planning to inject into the country next year. McCain then goes even farther and says, ‘Senator Obama calls for more troops, but what he doesn’t understand, it’s got to be a new strategy, the same strategy that he condemned in Iraq, that’s going to have to be employed in Afghanistan.’
[New Europe News: The European News Source] Learning the lessons of Iraq - NEW EUROPE - The European News Source: Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.
[Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque] Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien: Obama's New Advisor Stands By His War Crimes: I'm well aware of the role I played . My role has been very, very straightforward. I wanted to avoid a war. The president agreed with me. We tried to do that. We couldn't get it through the U.N. and when the president ...
[The Long War Journal] Iraqi forces detain seven Iranian agents in Iraq - The Long War ...: Eleven of those captured were members of the Hezbollah Brigades. The Hezbollah Brigades is an Iranian-backed terror group that has been behind multiple roadside bombings and rocket attacks against US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad.
[Comments on: Ros’ Daily Email] On air: Does Afghanistan need a surge? « BBC World Have Your Say: The awakening or Al Sahwa counsils founded by the Sunni tribes leaders is the most important cause of the what so called improvement in the security situation on the ground all over Iraq, plus the decision of Sayed Muqtada Al Sadr in September 2007 to freeze all the military activities of Al Mehdi army, plus imposing extremely tight security measures on the ground on daily bases by the Iraqi military and police forces including blocking almost 85% of the main streets, roads and bridges and having hundreds of military check points along the remaining 15% opened main streets, bridges and roads in Baghdad… But anyway, thank you Mr Bush for your surge, yeah whatever !!!
[Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting] Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting » Blog Archive » Iraq Reports as ...: To begin the reeducation process necessary to recognize such positions as sick jokes, I recommend the best history of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that I've seen: Michael Schwartz's War Without End: The Iraq War in Context.
[Obsidian Wings] Obsidian Wings: Post Successful Surge Victorious Iraq: First, some ominous signs surrounding one of the biggest (if not the biggest) impediments to the establishment of a peaceful, stable Iraq going forward: the resolution of the internal/external refugee crisis. The population of displaced Iraqis numbers between four and five million (roughly 15-20% of the pre-war population).
[SWJ Blog] 21 October SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.
[Abu Aardvark] Abu Aardvark: facing up to reality: Profs who blog Williams Alumni Review article about blogging professors (me, Dan Drezner, Sam Crane). PDF.
[Comments for Commentary] Commentary » Blog Archive » The Security Tug-of-War: As RCAR points, we are not the senior partner any longer in this operation. Could anyone imagine that Chancellor Konrad Adenaur or Japanese PM Kinoye would had the temerity of asking the US to limit anything.
[World Politics Review: Blog] World Politics Review | Rethinking the 2002 Iraq War Resolution: McCain deserve credit: Obama for his skepticism and opposition to the war in 2002 and 2003, McCain for supporting the Surge which has helped make the decision to invade Iraq marginally less disastrous than it appeared in 2006. But the debate over those two questions this election season has served to obscure the question we ought to have asked ourselves in the first place: What would an effective policy towards Iraq have looked like?
[According To Me] 2000 Days (According To Me): Four thousand U.S. casualties, thirty thousand U.S. wounded, a half-trillion dollars and counting, and two thousand days since the president’s aircraft carrier grandstanding later, there remains no coherent exit strategy, no game plan, and the hasty negotiations for U.S. forces to remain in Iraq threaten to unravel the “surge” the GOP have been crowing about for months; a strategy Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has acknowledged only cautiously and at some distance, heeding the words of the strategy’s architect Petraeus, who described the situation in Iraq as “tenuous” and “reversible.” He later said in September that, “I don't use terms like ‘victory’ or ‘defeat’...
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