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[Middle East News and Comment] links for 2009-02-19 « Middle East News and Comment: Obama Orders 17000 US Troops to Afghanistan February 18, 2009; Iraq Funding Ponzi Scheme Bigger than Madoff's;

[Third 3rd War] Informed Comment: Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing? | Third ...: Informed Comment: Iraq: Kurdish-Arab War in the Offing?,

[MotherJones.com | MoJoBlog - Social Issues and Political Commentary] McCaffrey Says US in The "End Game" in Iraq | Mother Jones: For example, if a "Status of Forces" agreement is not reached before the current UN mandate for US troops in Iraq expires at the end of December, American units will have to return to their bases and begin withdrawal, threatening Iraq's recent gains. Politicians in Baghdad have so far not agreed to US proposals, which McCaffrey says is like "holding a gun to their own head." Beyond that, Iran's covert operations in Iraq continue to be destabilizing, and if Tehran goes forward with nuclear weapons development, the inevitable US response could wreak havoc on the entire region, Iraq included.

[Israpundit] Israpundit » Blog Archive » Iraqi Kurds want US help to avoid war ...: Al-Maliki has said the 2005 constitution gave too much power to Iraq’s provinces and has called for amending the document ”” to the alarm of the Kurds who supported the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam and who are determined to protect their regional autonomy.

[WSJ.com: The Informed Reader - WSJ.com] The Informed Reader - WSJ.com : U.S. Withdrawal Might Not Mean ...: Polls show that, despite their differences, most Iraqis are against the fighting by extremists and in favor of a unified, peaceful Iraq as well as a U.S. withdrawal. A central government that doesn’t operate under the suspicion of being U.S.-guided will be better equipped to broker the compromises necessary for peace, he says.

[Hispanic Business Magazine] Crocker Leaving Iraq Hopeful But Warns Against Fast Pullout ...: Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, took part in a video conference about the war with Obama and Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Wednesday, the president's first full day in office.

[Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] In Iraq's Diyala Province, US forces anticipate exit | csmonitor.com: It notes the need to ensure locals do "not see the insurgency as a viable means to ensuring their future prosperity." The key for US officers is to "bridge communication gaps" between levels of local government to make it "self-sustaining."

[SWJ Blog] 21 October SWJ Roundup: The result is a stunning, firsthand history of the years from mid-2006, when the White House realizes the Iraq strategy is not working, through the decision to surge another 30,000 US troops in 2007, and into mid-2008, when the war becomes a fault line in the presidential election. As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

[Iowa Underground] The Myth that FDR Failed: Sousy: In the middle of what turned out to be a two and a half hour commute yesterday, I also decided to flip off the BBC World News on WOI and tuned into “The Rush Limbaugh Program” on WHO yesterday. ...

[Informed Comment] Informed Comment: W.'s Twilight: A Man of Feeble Temper: Bush even dared address us about how wonderful things are in the Middle East now without bringing up the ongoing massacre of Palestinians in Gaza or the continued expropriation and statelessness of the Palestinian people, who may as well be slaves. Bush was the first US president to call for a Palestinian state, and he had pledged that he would accomplish something to revive the peace process in the final two years of his catastrophic presidency.

[BELLACIAO - EN] BELLACIAO - W.’s Twilight: A Man of Feeble Temper - Dr. Juan Cole, PhD: Bush lumbers off into his Houston gated community (until recently whites-only), having dropped the pretense of being a rancher who liked to "clear brush." He has enriched his cronies in the military-industrial complex, and opened Iraq to investment by US petroleum firms. But the US economy was hollowed out by an administration that did not believe in auditing the books or actually regulating businesses as the law requited.

[Vinny's Breaking News Blog] » Latest Military and Iraq News Real-Time Updates Vinny’s Breaking ...: David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, offers a grim view of military efforts in that country’s southern region, warning that 17,000 new troops will take on emboldened Taliban insurgents who have “stalemated” U.S. and allied forces.

[Don Surber] Don Surber » Blog Archive » AP: We won: The new phase focuses on training the Iraqi army and police, restraining the .Iraq still faces a mountain of problems: sectarian rivalries, power struggles within the Sunni and Shiite communities, Kurdish-Arab tensions, corruption.

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