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Archive for March, 2007

McCain vs. Ware

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Point:
BLITZER: Here’s what you told Bill Bennett on his radio show on Monday.
MCCAIN: Yes.
BLITZER: “There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.”
MCCAIN: Yes.
BLITZER: “The U.S. is beginning to succeed in Iraq.”
You know, everything we hear, that if you leave the so-called green zone, the international zone, and you [...]

The Looming Tower

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

I just saw a wonderful talk by Lawrence Wright who was in Toronto accepting the Gelber Prize for his book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11. It is refreshing to see such a soft spoken yet tremendously authoritative treatment of this topic. An exemplar of the type of analysis fundamentally [...]

Assessing the Surge

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

What metrics should we be using to measure the success of the surge? Some are beginning to note a decrease in bombings in Baghdad, but given that it was widely believed that the insurgents (of some stripes anyways) would simply lay low until the surge was over, is this really a viable indicator? The first [...]