(Via The Huffington Post.)
The war in Iraq has become “a major debacle” and the outcome “is in doubt” despite improvements in security from the buildup in U.S. forces, according to a highly critical study published Thursday by the Pentagon’s premier military educational institute.
The report released by the National Defense University raises fresh doubts about President […]
(Via TalkLeft.)
Where’s Obama on Israel and the Palestinians? On both sides.
Since running for President, he’s become an outspoken supporter of Israel. While in the Illinois legislature, he was a friend, supporter and beneficiary of Palestinians whose organizations trashed Israel.
Yesterday, when asked on the campaign trail about why he didn’t denounce Louis Farakahn before he […]
(Via msnbc.com.)
Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.
But now one component of the fractious Republican Party foreign policy establishment — the so-called pragmatists, some […]
(Via ABC News.)
Retired Gen. Colin Powell insists he hasn’t yet decided who he’ll back in the 2008 presidential election.
“I’m looking at all three candidates,” Powell said in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer for Thursday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC. “I know them all very, very well. I consider myself a friend of each and […]
(Via Yahoo! News.)
Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the stakes Tuesday in his showdown with government, threatening to end formally a seven-month cease-fire unless authorities stop attacks on his followers in Baghdad.
Formally ending the cease-fire could trigger renewed fighting throughout southern Iraq, nine days after a deal brokered in Iran calmed the region.
But there was no […]
(Via ABC News.)
Retired Gen. Colin Powell insists he hasn’t yet decided who he’ll back in the 2008 presidential election.
“I’m looking at all three candidates,” Powell said in an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer for Thursday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC. “I know them all very, very well. I consider myself a friend of each and […]
(Via RealClearPolitics.)
At this stage, the United States has no good option in Iraq. But the drawbacks and dangers of the current bottom-up approach demand a change of course. The only alternative is a return to a top-down strategy. To be more effective this time around, Washington must return to the kind of diplomacy that the […]
(Via msnbc.com.)
The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress Tuesday that hard-won gains in the war zone are too fragile to promise any troop pullouts beyond this summer, holding his ground against impatient Democrats and refusing to commit to more withdrawals before President Bush leaves office in January.
In testimony that featured questioning by the major […]
(Via CNN.com.)
The sharp differences between the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates over the war in Iraq shared the spotlight Tuesday during Senate hearings.
Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said that success in Iraq was “within reach” at the beginning of the high-profile hearing on Iraq involving Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. general […]
(Via CNN.com - Politics.)
Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia after more than a year in the post, citing what he called inaccurate news reports that put him at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.
