Tag: Iraq
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"The United States is now winning the war that two years ago seemed lost."
That’s not an op-ed piece, it’s the lead sentence of an Associated Press article. As James Taranto points out, it’s kind of the mirror image of Walter Cronkite coming out against the Vietnam War.
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Mr. Obama’s War?
Obama opposed the surge, and McCain was its champion. Jonah Goldberg argues that the success of the surge will therefore favor… Obama. If it were going worse, McCain’s Churchillian rhetoric would match reality better. But with sectarian violence nearly gone, al Qaeda in Iraq almost totally routed and even Sadrist militias seemingly neutralized, the stakes […]
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Politicians in Iraq Provide Reasons for Hope
I’m talking about two politicians in particular. One, of course, is Barack Obama, who is in Iraq to lay the groundwork for throwing under the bus the people who thought he was going to bring the troops home no matter what. The other is Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who caused me (yes, I take […]
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I Prefer the Chicago Politician to the Obamessiah
From the start, my take on Obama has been that he’s a talented and charismatic politician who some day could become an important senator. For the most part I like him. I’ll be voting for the other guy, but if Obama wins, it’s not like I’m going to flee the country. Regardless of who wins, […]