In Response to: Which, goes a way to explaining why we’ve spent more money reconstructing Iraq than Germany and Japan but have received inferior results. And in the interests of “keep most of what you earn” apply to today as well as tomorrow? Are you concerned about the massive budget deficit we’ve built. Don’t you […]

In Response to: The first is: what does victory Iraq look like and how long do you think it will take to get there? Is victory a strong stable secular democracy? What would the levels of violence need to be at in order to withdraw troops, roughly equivalent to American society, does it need to […]

In Response to: Second, could you point me to another example in history in which this type of war strategy has worked? Arguments from history sort of stink because you always have to make arguments by analogy, but useful examples seem to be the American Revolution, American Reconstruction, American-Filipino War, Soviet-Afghan War and the Algerian […]

“The number of American troops and Iraqi civilians killed in the war fell in September to levels not seen in more than a year. The US military said the lower count was at least partly a result of new strategies and 30,000 additional forces deployed this year,” i.e., the surge is working. Also yesterday: Locals […]

A Marine Corps sergeant has accused Jack Murtha…” 16-term — that means 32 years, “…congressman from Pennsylvania, of falsely accusing him of cold-blooded murder and war crimes in connection with the deaths of Iraqi citizens. The Justice Department wanted the case dismissed because Murtha was acting in his official role as a lawmaker. Assistant U.S. […]