From Juan Cole: Az-Zaman reports that the "Cadres and Chosen Party" of 180 members of the Sadr Movement is coming in third in the early election returns [in the south], after the mainstream Shiite United Iraqi Alliance and the Iraqiyah list of interim Prime Minister...
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Apropos my recent post on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, here's what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests:If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power.First, who is this "we"?...
Ouch! I'm talking about the public thrashing Juan Cole delivered to the clueless Jonah Goldberg. Not content to accept defeat after being bested by Cole, Goldie made the dispute the subject of a column -- and soon found himself on the receiving end of the...
Apropos my recent post on the Iraq elections, Christopher Hitchens, and liberventionists generally, here's what Hitch recently told some Iraqi guests:"If the Iraqis were to elect either a Sunni or Shia Taliban, we would not let them take power."First, who is this...
Pick the version you like best:1) U.S. troops manning a checkpoint Monday discovered four Egyptian technicians who had been kidnapped the day before in Baghdad, an Egyptian diplomat said. The four were freed and some arrests were made, he added. 2) Four Egyptian...
FAKE. But, whodunit? I see the conservative warblogs are on yet another anti-media jihad, so it looks like the US soldier hostage hoax needs to be revisited. To recap, the story of the US soldier hostage was broken by the AP under Robert Reid's byline from Baghdad....
Why I really enjoy reading Matthew Yglesias' blog: "Oh John, why do you waste your time thusly? But while we're on the subject, the extent to which Reynoldsism -- the doctrine that "the left" (whatever it is) has been captured by an irrational and pathological hatred...
Hot on the heels of Rumsfeld's statement today:"The Shia in Iraq are Iraqis they are not Iranians, and the idea that they are going to end up with a government like Iran with a handful of mullahs controlling the country, I think is unlikely," Defence Secretary Donald...
Chickenhawk:"In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, "Why aren't we killing people yet?" And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States...
