Robert Kaplan writes an intersting account of the actions in Fallujah. Read the whole thing as they say.
He also offers some perspective of how public relations affects what is happening on the ground. After detailing what had tactically happened he writes:
But none of the above matters if it is not competently […]
Tacitus writes an overview of the conflict and gives a solution:
But as I said, the solution is pathetically simple: the United States and Chad can and should facilitate an invasion of Darfur. Is this madness in the face of ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Hardly. The test cases — the Afghan campaign of fall […]
Check out the Carnival of the Liberated for a roundup of Iraqi blogs.
This article in the Boston Globe looks into the attitudes of the common people of Najaf.
Najaf residents described the Shi’ite militants who fought American soldiers as outside rabble. As a result, regardless of the threat still posed by the Mahdi Army and some fallout from damage caused to the shrine of Imam Ali in recent […]
Stephen F. Hayes provides a useful compilation of Iraq-Al Qauda ties in the Weekly Standard.
This article suggests that it might be.
China’s staggering economic growth over the past few decades has made it a very significant factor in world economics. The old adage that when the United States sneezes the rest of the world catches a cold is starting to apply to China as well. All in all, […]
Nicholas Kristof writes about some good news in the Sudan Civil war.
Sudanese peasants will be naming their sons “George Bush” because he scored a humanitarian victory this week that could be a momentous event around the globe — although almost nobody noticed. It was Bush administration diplomacy that led to an accord to end a […]
Check out this article by a man who lives down the street from Abu Hamza.
“Your family is not in danger.” Though strictly true, this reassurance does not reassure me at all. The threat from al-Qa’eda is so all-encompassing that it justifies extraordinary measures. Surveillance and denunciation, the knock on the door in the small hours, […]
This article talks about the hunt to find Musab al-Zarqawi. The really interesting part to me is on the second page of the artice:
During the 1990s, Zarqawi trained under bin Laden in Afghanistan. After the fall of the Taliban, he fled to northwestern Iraq and worked with poisons for use in potential attacks, […]
