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[The Best Defense] Iraq, the unraveling (XXI): An Iraqi mayor's worried assessment ...: In all the press attendant to the second battle in Tal Afar, and the great success we declared for McMasters 3rd ACR, I never heard it reported that the Mayor was a retired 2-star officer from Saddam's air defense force. I still don't know whether he's Turkmen, which flavor of mosque his family favors, or how 'mayors' were selected during his term.

[FP Passport] Friday Photo: Iraqi Chess Championship | FP Passport: Iraqi chessplayers from all over Iraq competed for the second day in a row to winthe Iraqi Chess Championship held in Baghdad as the security situationcontinues to improve in the capital. Iraqi government announced onAugust 5, that it intends to remove within 40 days the blast wallserected by the U.S. military in Baghdad.

[Talk Islam] More Evangelical “Good News” « Talk Islam: My own paper, The Charleston Gazette in West Virginia, is the only U.S. newspaper to report it so far. Canada’s Toronto Star recounted the story, calling it a “stranger-than-fiction disclosure ”¦ which suggests that apocalyptic fervor may have held sway within the walls of the White House.” Fortunately, online commentary sites are spreading the news, filling the press void.

[The Washington Note] Guest Post by Katherine Tiedemann: Holbrooke on Success -- "We'll ...: I am simply flabbergasted that after a two decade period of criminal Washington bungling and swashbuckling in which we precipitated the deaths of somewhere around a million Iraqis - that's about *eight times* the population of my state of New Hampshire - there are still Americans who are willing to say, "lets just go in with our good intentions and fine ideals, and wing it until we bump into something we are pleased to call success." This response makes me despair that people are even capable of learning from the past.

[The Cable] FP's exclusive guide to Congress's summer junkets | The Cable: John McCain (R-AZ) plans to lead a delegation including his friends Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), and Susan Collins (R-ME), on what looks to be a gritty, six-country, seven-day tour of post-war zones and forward operating bases, including Libya, Kuwait, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iceland. One sign the trip is tough?

[The Thunder Run] The Thunder Run: From the Front: 08/12/2009: Bad Dogs and Such: Top Ten Things That Abby Won't Miss About Iraq - 10 - Chicken. With rice. 9 - Wearing long pants, boots, a t-shirt and a jacket. In the Middle East. In the summer. If you're going outside the wire, you can exchange the t- shirt and jacket for a long-sleeve ..... Federal Police Reach Out to Children - MOSUL ”” The Mosul Brigade Federal Police (FP) handed out school supplies and children's shoes to the citizens of the Bab Al-Toob neighborhood here, Aug. 8. ...

[Editorials] Semantics and the war on terror - Winnipeg Free Press: THE Obama administration quietly recommended to Pentagon staffers last March that they avoid referring to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as the war on terror and use the phrase Overseas Contingency Operation instead, according to reports. It could just as easily have been called the War Against Bad People, or the War to End Violence Against Us, but then government bureaucracies tend to prefer cold and sterile euphemisms to real talk.

[The Best Defense] Iraq, the unraveling (XVI): the Kurds against Baghdad - By Tom ...: Was this press availability a billable effort? Tom Ricks's List of the Top Ten Military History Books · Buy This Book · Al Qaeda's Bizarre Comeback · Climate Change Is Not A National Security Issue · Why the Junta Should Still Fear Aung San Suu Kyi · Why Iraq's Top Mayor Predicts Civil War.

[Mondoweiss] 'The New Yorker' and Iraq-Still No Penance: Packer may not have said sorry, but he has at least has written a fine piece in the New Yorker about the boonies in Ohio, which, like Blair's useless swanning around the ME and Powell's eventual endorsement of Obama, carries a whiff of penance about it.

[Flavorwire] Flavorwire » Blog Archive » The Architecture of War: A Look at ...: By pixtorm blog » links for 2009-06-16 on June 17th, 2009 at 2:10 am. Doh! You're right! Now don't I feel like a Jackass! >.

[United Against Islamic Supremacism] FP 2009 Update - Week 31 - The Cable « United Against Islamic ...: even though the Ayatollah’s responses to Obama’s private correspondence have been anything but confidence inspiring for the young administration.  Apparently everyone patted themselves on the back for how smoothly Obama’s team handled the tumult in the Iranian post-election street clashes between Moussavi opposition supporters and Ayatollah loyalists, striking the right tone somehow amid the violence by brooking no condemnations and focusing instead on raising international opprobrium over the activity of the Islamic Establishment in the oppression of the opposition voices and freedom of speech.  After a month of chilling reaction from the American people over healthcare reform, the Senate junkets are set for the recess, with John Kerry, who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, jetting to Jordan and Pakistan to observe the realities on the ground in the Central Region for himself.  Dennis Ross’ crew was rather quiet this week, heeding Trita Parsi’s advice of a strategic pause in activity on the Iranian front.  Daniel Feltman was finally confirmed…and Carlos Pascual is now officially the Ambassador to Mexico.  More or less, week 31 at the Cable was a lead up to,  the counterterrorism czar, John Brennan’s CSIS speech, announcing a new approach to safeguarding America…   But more importantly, Foreign Policy Magazine launched what it is referring to as  ”The AfPak Channel”

[Stephen M. Walt] Is Climate Change a Threat to Vital U.S. Interests? | Stephen M. Walt: If the purpose of the study is to highlight the need to take climate change seriously and to rally public support for doing something about it, then OK.  The Times quotes retired general Anthony Zinni in this fashion, where he warns that we will either spend the money now to try to slow or halt climate change, or we will spend the money (and lives) later to deal with the consequences. This is a familiar political tactic: when you want to do something expensive, try to convince people that it is a critical national security imperative.

[FP Passport] Civilian deaths rising in Afghanistan | FP Passport: The British government has begun a public inquiry into the country's involvement in the Iraq war. Middle East. Multiple bombings killed 24 people as they were leaving Friday prayers at three Shiite mosques in Baghdad. ...

[United Against Islamic Supremacism] FP 2009 Update - Week 30 - The Cable « United Against Islamic ...: There are movements back and forth across it.  I think our new strategy, which has been endorsed by a very large number of nations, some of whom don’t agree with us on a lot of other things, is aimed at achieving our primary goal.  And we also learned from Iraq, which were hard lessons, that in order to have our military intervention be effective, when they go in and try to clear areas of the extremists, we have to follow in to build up the capacity of the local community to defend itself and to be able to realize the benefits of those changes.  This is a new strategy.  It’s just beginning.  I think the president believed that it was not only the right strategy but, facing what he faced, to withdraw our presence or to keep it on the low level limited effectiveness that had been demonstrated, would have sent a message to al-Qaeda and their allies that the United States was willing to leave the field to them.  And in addition, importantly, we’ve seen the Pakistani government and military really step up, which had not happened to the extent it has now.  So the Taliban, which is as, I believe strongly, part of a kind of terrorist syndicate with al-Qaeda at the center…

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