The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has issued its quarterly report to Congress. Its mostly an auditor type report, so I don’t really recommend reading it. A few highlights however: The theme of this Quarterly Report, “A Nascent Normalcy: The...
“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going on. I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and...
Between 1977 and 2006, the percentage of members of Congress that had served in the military fell from 75% to 24%. There are 35 combat veterans in the current Congress. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa. is the only sitting Congressman to have served in Iraq. Murphy will be...
There’s a couple of articles below that I would normally just run through the sidebar. They’re pretty important however so I thought that I’d give them a full post. Both are from the Long War Journal and they’re the best thing I’ve seen...
We cannot tolerate nuclear weapons in the hands of nations that support terror. Preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons is a vital national security interest of the United States. No tool of statecraft should be taken off the table, but Senator McCain would...
This is a really good piece from BlackFive.net regarding the necessity of Iraqi’s perceiving the Iraqi government as legitimate. There is an important concept needed to understand the negotiations — both formal ones, and those using the press as a proxy...
