The Big Surge

President Bush will address the nation tonight in order to
achieve the lofty goal of garnering support for the big “surge”;
his latest role of the dice that is intended to establish order on
the streets of Baghdad.
Mr. Bush’s new plan calls for an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops
to be deployed in Baghdad for a period lasting six [...]

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From Kool-Aid to Acid

I’ll take the fruit salad please, just remove the cruddy looking,
dried up pieces that are hard to swallow. The toughest looking
pieces in the Baker-Hamilton salad are the ones representing
discussions with Iran and Syria.
As president Bush rambled on about the US not succeeding as
quickly as he hoped, and while he mentioned that progress is [...]

Stand up already!

Sports jargon to cure Iraq

According to a report in the Washington Post, “Go Big”, “Go Long”,
“Go Short”, are the options initially put forward by the US military
with regard to halting the collapse of Iraq into all-out civil war.
These phrases are usually uttered by sports announcers during football
season, it is nice to know that they can be applied to [...]

2006 Midterm Elections Force Change in Iraq Strategy

What is all the fuss about the Iraq Study Group? Shouldn‘t this group have been convened sometime in late 2002, or early 2003 – before the invasion? I guess the Bush administration thought it would be a no-brainer, something they could achieve while sleepwalking. The need for an Iraq Study Group shows that the [...]