Did Moqtada Sadr Just Win The Iraqi Election?
So who does Moqtada al-Sadr hate more these days — Nouri al-Maliki or Iyad Allawi? Both have tried to crush him. Maliki’s just the most recent to attempt it. According to the Times, Sadr has a creative...
View ArticleMark Bowden Owes Tom Ricks Money
If you’ve never read a profile of Gen. Petraeus and you don’t mind really purple, sycophantic prose — “[W]hen Petraeus tests himself, he usually wins” is a line that survived the editing process — then...
View ArticleState of Law, The Only Thing We Have Today
In the past 36 hours, some organization wearing the uniforms of Iraqi soldiers pulled off a brazen mass murder of Awakening members in Arab Jabour. (“Methodically” was the adverb the Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleSadrists Give Two Middle Fingers To Allawi And Maliki
In what might be the least surprising thing to have ever happened in Iraq, the Sadrist referendum on whom the JAMsters ought to back for prime minister rejected the two leading candidates who, in...
View ArticleOdierno Will Leave Iraq
He’ll go to Joint Forces Command, so he’s being promoted. So does that mean some post like Marine Corps Commandant will suddenly open up for Gen. Mattis? I don’t happen to know if Commandant is a...
View ArticleIs Odierno Right About al-Qaeda in Iraq?
Warning! Everything that follows in this post is idle barstool-though-I’m-still-at-work speculation! So you may have heard that U.S. and Iraqi forces killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al Masri,...
View ArticleCelebrating the end, again, and again, and again
Well, I’ll be the second volunteer to poke my head up and say hello. (Hello). I’m Jenn, and I basically threw my hands up in the air like a dorky girl in history class until Spencer called on me, from...
View ArticleSo This Is the Way a War “Ends”…
…not with a bang, but a crapload of paperwork and actuarials. So reports the Associated Press from Joint Base Balad in Iraq. Your money grafs: The orderly withdrawal is a far cry from the...
View ArticleAre the Marines Foldin’ on COIN and Afghanistan?
As an ex-squid, I should probably hate Marines. But the smartass in me has always liked them: Notwithstanding their hoo-rah, “kill kill” reputation, the jarheads have a greater tolerance than most...
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Twitter Foreign Policy Debate: @GlobalistHulk vs. @FolksyWarAddict
@GlobalistHulk: FOLKSY WAR ADDICT NEED DECLARE IR PARADIGM AT OUTSET! OR YOU BE FOLKSY STRAW MAN! @FolksyWarAddict: Gee, I guess I’m not sophistimicated enough for that. I just believe in a STRONG...
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