Kerry Argues for Counterinsurgency Lite

Amid growing speculation and partisan bickering over what President Barack Obama will do about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, an influential Democratic senator Monday warned against deploying tens of thousands more U.S. troops there. Just back from a...

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Fool’s Goldstone

According to a Chinese saying, if someone in the street tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off. Our political and military...

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Bleep NATO

Tom Shanker of the New York Times tells us that NATO defense ministers have given their "broad endorsement" to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's plan to escalate the Afghanistan war into a full-Monty counter insurgency effort. NATO defense ministers love...

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Why the Attacks on J Street?

For the past few years we've seen a sea change on the question of U.S. relations with Israel, both in the U.S. and in the Jewish state. In America, the idea that our "special relationship" with Tel Aviv dictates a policy of unconditional support has come...

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Sunday: 164 Iraqis Killed; Over 700 Iraqis, 3 US Contractors Wounded

Updated at 5:25 p.m. EDT, Oct. 25, 2009 A pair of devastating explosions targeting government buildings in Baghdad left 147 dead and 718 wounded just hours before the Iraqi government would again try to solve an elections law impasse. Three U.S. contractors were also wounded. The death toll eclipses that of “Bloody Wednesday” which left over 100 dead two months ago. Only two other Iraqis were reported killed elsewhere.
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Saturday: 7 Iraqis Killed, 15 Wounded

Updated at 9:09 p.m. EDT, Oct. 24, 2009 At least seven Iraqis were killed and 15 more were wounded in new violence. An Iraqi court issued an arrest warrant for a Sunni parliamentarian after a detainee claimed he received money and instructions from her to kill or expel Shi’ites from Diyala province.
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