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A Military Perspective on the Anbar Awakening
1 comment on A Military Perspective on the Anbar AwakeningA fascinating 20-minute video from MilBlogs TV describes how American forces cooperated with and supported the early stages of the Anbar Awakening, a key factor in the turnaround in Iraq. It’s not a completely happy…
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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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Let’s Go Mets
The whole post-every-day thing is already running out of steam. So far the blog seems to be mostly about Obama. Today it’s about the Mets — game starts at 1:10, I need to head for…
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Whoops… Just a Few Minutes Left…
… to make my quota for Day Five of the post-every-day experiment.
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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…
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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…
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Blogger’s Block
One barrier to my blogging has always been technical. For a non-techie, I’m reasonably web-savvy, after five years of working full-time on intranet content. But, perhaps because I don’t have a technical background, I get…
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A Blog in Search of a Purpose
Some day, when I’m a titan of the blogosphere, I’ll be able to say, “I’ve been blogging since 2003.” Before my titanship arrives, however, I obviously need to post a little more regularly, and before…
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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…
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The pace is quickening
Next thing you know it’ll be under a year between posts…