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[Wired.co.uk RSS] Afghanistan's war costs to rise above Iraq's: And then, there's Congress' habit of packing war spending bills with projects designed to appeal to certain interest groups... The inclusion of the “contingency .

[Michael J. Totten] Michael J. Totten: The Dissidents' War: I think the invasion of Iraq was the right thing, simply because I cannot now imagine the world with Saddam Hussein still in power. His reign was ghastly, even by the standards of Arab dictatorships, and in some weird, deterministic sort of way, I feel that it was inevitable as well as good and correct that the world (the world being America) would remove him, even at such a horrible cost.

[race42008.com] race42008.com » Blog Archive » Are You Principled or Pragmatic?: The dirty little secret the McCain campaign didnt want anyone to know, was that Meghan protested the Iraq war, but as soon as she graduated, got away from the radical liberals at her school and most importantly, when her brother was deployed to Iraq, she woke up and saw her fathers logic on the surge.

[World Affairs] World Affairs Journal - Tarnished Brass: Is the U.S. Military ...: After remarkable success prior to and during World War II in creating and executing strategy in the largest and most complex war in human history, the American military began a slow decline. Ironically, this decline came at a time when the military was gaining enormous influence in the making of foreign and national security policies in the government reorganization of the 1940s: the unification of the armed forces and the creation of the National Security Council, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the unified and specified commands, the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence organizations, and the various mobilization, munitions, and logistics boards and agencies.

[Political Animal] The Washington Monthly: The U.S. felt that Resolution 1441 called for the immediate, total unilateral disarmament of Iraq and continued to show frustration at the fact that months after the resolution was passed Iraq was still not, in its view, disarming. Language in Resolution 1441 recalled that the use of "all means necessary" was still authorized and in effect from Resolution 678, and therefore maintained that if Iraq failed to comply with the "one final chance to comply" provision of Resolution 1441, then military action would be the result.

[QandO] http://www.qando.net/ - Explaining Operation Phantom Thunder: By that I don’t mean counting so much by numbers killed but by whether or not Iraq is generally under control with insurgent attacks not unleashing sectarian violence or militias dominating. If 500 are killed a month, but they are mostly car bombs and hit and run, with government forces generally in control and the insurgents unable to promote more than various terror attacks, then that passes for "reasonable control by the Iraqi government/military." It also must remain democratic and not in the hands of an authoritarian.

[ChronWatch - Articles] No, Bush Is Brilliant!: The U.S. success in the Iraq war in the last six months, with much thanks to General Petraeus, the Patton and MacArthur of our time, although we don't fully realize that yet, is achieving a complete realignment of much of the Middle East toward the United States, not because they love the United States the more, perhaps, but because most of the Arab countries see in the United States their only hope of salvation from Iran, and, in the U.S. and Iraqi defeat of Al Qaeda in Iraq, they see their hope of salvation from the growth of Al Qaeda and militant Islamism and Jihadism, which threatens to topple the House of Saud and the rest of the moderate (by Arab standards) regimes in the Arabian countries and replace them with juntas of strict religious mullahtocracy, to the tune of many heads rolling. The Arabs will side with the winner of the Iraq War, if only because they cannot afford to side with the loser, economically or politically. 

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot: Right now there are not additional requests to send more troops to Afghanistan and, in fact, the Secretary of Defense, Bob Gates, has said many times, as have others, there's a limit to the number of troops you can send to Afghanistan.

[Positive Liberty] Positive Liberty » Iraq War - Unconstitutional, Unnecessary ...: If Obama really respected the Constitution as he claims he would end the Bush policies on secrecy and give all enemy combatants held as war criminals an open trial, he would end the Iraq War, and he would ask Congress to draw up formal treaties of peace with the governments of Afghanistan and Iraq. You were right about Iraq all along, Jim.

[USNI Blog] Time to Ask the Tough Question | USNI Blog: The United States was on the verge of defeat in Iraq as well, but instead of accepting a military defeat, Secretary of Defense Gates under the Bush administration reevaluated strategy in an attempt to achieve military victory. This was followed up last month under the Obama administration when Secretary of Defense Gates reassessed requirements for achieving victory with a balanced force necessary to meet a broader spectrum of the nations strategic challenges where military power may be required.

[FAIR Blog] FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Press Corp 'Dean' Preaches 'Purposeful ...: Even after the disgraceful performance of so many armchair warriors during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, who would have dared predict the willingness, nay, eagerness, of respected journalists and pundits to argue in favor of purposeful .Sadly, many of them have shown less interest in potential war crimes committed by the Bush administration than little Misha Lerner, the Jewish Primary Day School fourth grader who quizzed Condoleezza Rice about her inability to .

[The Latest on Air America] Rep. Sestak Talks About Running Against Specter | Air America Media: We didn't plan well, and now we react in Afghanistan, because of the tragic venture in Iraq rather than having done the job that we should have done over there. So my thing is, if we looked ahead and said "suppose the economy gets worse than the common predictions."

[MoJo Blog Posts: kevin drum] Who's Afraid of Social Security? | Mother Jones: Global climate change predictions are based on our ability to measure and extrapolate based on models. Perhaps the chief climate change pessimist, James Lovelock, took a survey of all the piecemeal modeling and found that most of them fell far short of predicting the true pace of warming.

[What Does The Prayer Really Say?] What Does The Prayer Really Say?»Blog Archive » Swiss Guard-ettes?: The Chairman of Augusta National, Hootie Johnson said the club’s policy wouldn’t change even if he dropped dead. And then he doubled-down on Burk and announced that Augusta pulled the sponsorships itself and they’d put the tournament without them.

[News and Opinion Blog of Blogs] Yoni Goldstein: (Nuclear) clouds on the horizon - News and Opinion ...: troops leave (and here is one of those cases where a known factor -- Barack Obama's stated desire to get U. troops out of Iraq in the near future -- will come into play), that will involve Iran assisting Iraqi Shiites attempting to overrun the country and Saudi Arabia coming to the aid of Sunnis.

[The musings of an Australian classical liberal in Washington DC] Tim's Secret Anti-Iraq War Article Released « The musings of an ...: It was the action of the US in 1953 by overthrowing an elected democratic government and installing the Shah that led to the eventual takeover of the US Embassy in Iran, and, whilst we viewed the action as terrorists who dared attack the West, domestically it was seen as ending years of oppression at the hands of a ruthless US backed regime. We still continue to support oppressive tyrannies throughout the Middle East;

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