Journey To The End
BACK IN D.C. — Via Juan Cole, Nouri al-Maliki clarifies his intentions for U.S. troops in a Wall Street Journal interview: ‘ WSJ: Some American officials have spoken about contingency plans being drawn...
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Colonel Yingling’s Peace
You will rarely find an essay filled with as much real talk as “A Failure In Generalship,” Lt. Col. Paul Yingling’s 2007 indictment of the general and flag officers who acquiesced to every bad decision...
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A Brief Guide To All The Journalism You’ll Read On The Iraq Pullout
Hear that? That’s the sound of parachutes getting packed and stock narratives getting compiled. By Christmas, news organizations that haven’t cared about Iraq since, oh, 2007 will give their reporters...
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Surprising no one who paid attention, the reason why Iraqis didn’t want a residual U.S. presence is because many of them view their American occupiers as murderers. The Post thinks this is a story...
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The Last Amusement Park In Fallujah
I keep this photograph near my desk. The children here are playing in 2003 in the the last playground/amusement park in Fallujah until the insurgency took over the city and brought the Marines in...
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And It’s Far From Over
Over at Danger Room I tried to wax poetic this morning about the last military convoys leaving Iraq. There’s a drone’s-eye video of the departure. I recommend watching until the end, so you can see the...
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Maliki Makes His Move
A day after the final U.S. convoy leaves Iraq, out comes the arrest warrant for Iraq’s Sunni vice president, Tarek al-Hashemi. Hashemi, naturally, is accused of being a terrorist. The U.S. has its...
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Lessons For Protesters From Terrorists
Megan Carpentier reports that anti-capitalist vandals in Albany brilliantly made a play for class solidarity by wrecking a Christmas display: Graffiti on the signage read “The commons are not for sale....
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Michael Hastings And Counterinsurgency: The Extended Remix
I interviewed my friend Michael Hastings about his new (and worthy) book The Operators. If the piece did the work I intended, it provided some pushback and clarification to someone for whom I have a...
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The Worst Iran Irony Of All
Got a little argument piece over at Danger Room on how the absolute most counterproductive unforced error the Iranians could inflict on themselves would be to close the Strait of Hormuz. Nothing would...
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