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[MountainRunner] American Public Diplomacy Wears Combat Boots: the Pentagon's $300 ...: The $300 million contract may be surprising to some, but it makes sense the the Defense Department would make the substantial investment to counter adversarial misinformation as well as to penetrate psychological firewalls that have gone up in Iraq before the Pentagon realized and internalized the importance of public opinion. That the Defense Department has taken the lead in this area is more than just a fatter budget than State.
[SWJ Blog] The Kurds and the Future of Iraq: Although Sunnis and Shias disagree on a preponderance of issues, the one thing that unites them is their staunch opposition to a perceived expansion of Kurdish influence, and a possible Kurdish annexation of Kirkuk has become a rallying cry for Arabs opposed to Kurdish expansion. As a result of the internal disagreements within the country concerning Kirkuk, the Iraqi government has grinded to a standstill affecting a broad range of issues from oil contracts and how revenues will be disbursed to new provincial elections.
[DSCC] Al Franken Sank This Ship! (And Other Ridiculous Attacks): The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee answered Norm Coleman’s over-the-top attacks on Al Franken today by airing a new ad in Minnesota on the serious issues Coleman has tried to avoid in the campaign: his support for billions of spending in Iraq, tax breaks for big oil, and giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry instead of lower prescription drugs for seniors.
[SWJ Blog] 2 October SWJ Roundup: The theme would be applying these ideas to conflict in the post-Iraq era, and more specifically to the types of diffused, networked, “open source” armed conflicts that some have called “fifth generation warfare.” We are also interested in exploring solutions, such as the role of “resilient communities” (RC), for countering them. As Oil and food prices have climbed and the mortgage crisis has grown, the need to think more about Resilient Communities has become more urgent.
[Daily Dreamtime] Dick Cheney role model - not: Cheney’s role in starting the war with Iraq, in misleading Americans about weapons of mass destruction, in leading the charge to create illegal prison camps where detainees are tortured, in illegally wiretapping Americans, in creating an energy policy that favored the oil industry that made him very rich before the administration began.
[Niqnaq] no recession for arms sales: Another potentially huge sale would be to Iraq, where the combination of regime change, occupation, and oil revenue has created loyal new customer. Even as US fighter planes bomb Iraqi cities, the Maliki government has indicated it .
[Cynical Optimist] Obama’s Foreign Policy Stance: He came to power wanting to move beyond Vietnam, slashing and changing the CIA, controlling defense spending and warning the country of “an excessive fear of Communism.” But following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he allowed Zbigniew Brzezinski, his national security adviser and now an adviser to Obama, to launch a guerrilla war against the Soviets using Islamist insurgents from across the Muslim world in Afghanistan. Carter moved from concern with anti-Communism to coalition warfare against the Soviets by working with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghan resistance fighters.
[SWJ Blog] 25 September SWJ Roundup: The theme would be applying these ideas to conflict in the post-Iraq era, and more specifically to the types of diffused, networked, “open source” armed conflicts that some have called “fifth generation warfare.” We are also interested in exploring solutions, such as the role of “resilient communities” (RC), for countering them. As Oil and food prices have climbed and the mortgage crisis has grown, the need to think more about Resilient Communities has become more urgent.
[Sean Percival's Blog] Full Transcript From Palin, Biden Debate: But if it did, I would carry out Barack Obama’s policy, his policies of reinstating the middle class, making sure they get a fair break, making sure they have access to affordable health insurance, making sure they get serious tax breaks, making sure we can help their children get to college, making sure there is an energy policy that leads us in the direction of not only toward independence and clean environment but an energy policy that creates 5 million new jobs, a foreign policy that ends this war in Iraq, a foreign policy that goes after the one mission the American public gave the president after 9/11, to get and capture or kill bin Laden and to eliminate al Qaeda. A policy that would in fact engage our allies in making sure that we knew we were acting on the same page and not dictating.
[Ohio Daily Blog - A Community Blog On Ohio Politics And Public Affairs -] Video - Biden on Foreign Policy in Cincinnati Today: He knows we should not keep spending $10 billion a month indefinitely while the Iraqis are running a $79 billion surplus - which is why he will start to shift responsibility to the Iraqis”¦bring our combat brigades home over a period of 16 months”¦ lead a diplomatic surge with the world’s great powers and Iraq’s neighbors to press for a political power sharing agreement”¦ and keep a residual force in Iraq to destroy any remaining terrorists, train Iraqis and protect our personnel.” .
[Artvoice Daily] Project Censored: An investigation by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian in The Nation that included interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans also revealed an overwhelming lack of training and resources, and a general disregard for the traditional rules of war.
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