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Stubborn Men
First, your claim that an earlier withdrawal would have destabilized Iraq is wrong. The Awakening which has quelled violence did not require large amounts of troops. And if you look at the stats, ''the surge'' was a political ploy, and in reality did not significantly alter the NUMBER of troops. Rather, there was an unannounced change in ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Doggerelburlesque on July 15, 2008
An interesting read
It's always fascinating reading a column on Iraq by this Hitchens guy. Not for the substance of anything he says, but simply to marvel at the fact that he can carry such a childishly simplistic narrative of the conflicts in the Middle East and central Asia around in his head, write about them, and still get taken seriously enough to retain a ...
Posted to Fighting Words by mattcliff on July 14, 2008
Book to Iraq
I have a different kind of ''books to Iraq'' story. After leaving a Ph.D. program in English, I tried to sell a lot of my grad school books on the Web. I'd taken a class on Masochism in Victorian literature and had a book called ''The Mastery of Submission,'' which I was trying to get rid of. Short version: a solider in a FOB (forward operating ...
Posted to Fighting Words by paradox on July 1, 2008