A Surge of Phony Spin on Iraq: Cole in Salon My column is out in Salon.com Tuesday: A surge of phony spin on Iraq Bush’s backers are peddling a sunny view of the president’s strategy — despite Iraq’s political chaos and soaring death counts. excerpts: ‘ The troop escalation was intended to calm down Baghdad […]
Napoleons Egypt And Page 99 Test
Napoleon’s Egypt and the Page 99 Test Marshal Zeringue’s Page 99 Test highlights my new book, Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East. This book blog is premised on Ford Maddox Ford’s bon mot, “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” Also, at the […]
122 Dead In Civil War Violence Collapse
122 Dead in Civil War Violence; The Collapse of the al-Maliki Cabinet The cabinet ministers in the al-Maliki government belonging to the National Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi suspended their participation on Monday. They did not withdraw altogether from the government, just declined to come to meetings. But now some 17 cabinet ministers have […]
Satire I Wanna Be Like Usama
Satire: I Wanna Be Like Usama I’ve always been a firm believer in making fun of the bad guys, since they derive some of their power from being taken seriously. From YouTube.
Edwards Hammers Clinton Over Ties To
John Edwards on the Pernicious Influence of Lobbyists on US Politics: Yearly Kos Thanks to David Sirota & YouTube. See also Dennis Perrin’s detailed and sometimes dyspeptic account of his Yearly Kos experience at Huffington Post. And Manan Ahmed gives his impressions here; Manan had a slight disagreement with the Obama camp over Pakistan.
Analysis Of Al Malikis Cabinet
Analysis of al-Maliki’s Cabinet Regarding the collapsing al-Maliki government, an informed observer writes: “The analysis of the current composition of the Council of Ministers is now complete. There are 38 Cabinet-level positions, not 40 as sometimes reported in the mainstream press-media. If the AP-reported number of 17 Ministers is correct, the non-participating Ministers would be […]
Tal Afar Bombing Kills 25 60 Bodies
Republican Candidates for Staying the Course; Tal Afar Bombing Kills 25; 60 Bodies found Near Baquba; 190,000 Guns Unaccounted for by Pentagon Republican candidates on Iraq Sunday: “They are making progress, and we are winning on the ground,” said Senator John McCain of Arizona. “We must win. And we will not set a date for […]
Bonapartes Proclamation On Overthrowing
Bonaparte’s Proclamation on Overthrowing the Ottoman Beys of Egypt Just one day until the book is out!. From the Napoleon’s Egypt Blog today, Bonaparte’s June 1798 proclamation to his troops on the rationale for attacking Ottoman Egypt. Main points: 1. The Ottoman-Egyptian Beys (“Mamluks” or slave-soldiers) were favoring British commerce over French. 2. The beys […]
Obama Sticks To His Guns Senator Obama
Obama Sticks to his Guns Senator Obama still can’t see why it is controversial for him to threaten to violate Pakistan’s sovereignty to get at the Arab al-Qaeda in Waziristan. His comments of last week roiled US-Pakistani relations. What he should be saying is that if he had an opportunity to deploy a Predator against […]
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