Daily Beast covers Iraq with Ignorance, Apathy, Ignoratio Elenchi and Obama...
Daily Beast argues today that central and western Iraq should be left to Al Qaeda in Iraq, renamed severally including "ISIS." Salafi hate-based terrorism is fine. Giving terrorists 25 million people...
View Article"Milestone" Fantasies and How "The Surge" Boondoggle Launched AQI into ISIS
"Milestone,""Mile Post," and "Turning Point" are key markers for Perpetual War sales pitches. There's also "turn the corner.""A new day" comes up as well, applied to Iraqi politics.If they had to stick...
View ArticleIraq and ISIS: Are the RW "Experts" condemned to eternal ignorance ???
Who, what, where, when, how and why ??? Do they ever get it right?For conservatives, getting the best of analysis from "their guys" means relying on American Enterprise Institute and Heritage...
View ArticleGood News in Iraq: Jurf al-Sakhar Surrounded and Retaken from ISIS.
November 5, 2014.Jurf al-Sakhar is a city of 80,000 on a line from Baghdad going south-by-southwest toward Karbala. Back in early June an ISIS attack group took the city unopposed. Since then this was...
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