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How al Qaeda overplayed its hand

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

BAGHDAD, Aug 8 (Reuters) – From the slaughter of children to edicts against suggestively shaped vegetables, al Qaeda’s brutality and its imposition of severe Islamic laws have been crucial to its decline in Iraq. Its enforcement of a severe form of Sunni Islam in areas it controlled made everyday life miserable, sapping support among the [...]

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Another pessimism bites the dust…

Monday, August 4, 2008

Remember that Iraqi civil war? Me neither. Why? It never happened. These days the perpetually pessimistic are relegated to semantics — “Well, define victory!” they’d matter-of-factly state. Okay, here’s victory: BAGHDAD — Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — long a thorn in the side of the U.S. military and Iraqi government — intends to disarm his [...]

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IOC’s shame

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

The decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Iraqi athletes from the Beijing Olympics is truly disgusting, summarized succintly by Michael Soussan: If Uday Hussein was acceptable to the IOC, why is the committee up in arms about the Iraqi government’s decision to reshuffle its Olympic management team? The answer is that Iraq’s [...]

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Yon on Iraq: Yes, we’ve won

Monday, July 28, 2008

This is by embedded journalist and author Michael Yon. He’s highly optimistic, but as he mentions, he’s also earned his analytic ability when it comes to Iraq. General Petraeus, is far more cautious, but of course, Petraeus has to watch his wording far more carefully. Petraeus, by the way, told the Obama camp on their [...]

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