Victory in Baghdad

Pic: Iraqi Ministry of the Interior commando stands side-by-side with a member of the Mahdi Army.

Just not exactly how we planned it.
“I don’t think this place is worth another American soldier’s life.” - Washington Post, 27 Oct. Despite the decrease in violence, the cleansing of the Sunnis of Sadiyah has been completed and not reversed, and [...]

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Red on red

AQI suicide bomber attacks 1920 Revolution Brigades HQ in Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad.
Islamic Army in Iraq battles AQI in Salahuddin Province, 16 killed.
If anything will eventually end the Sunni insurgency, this is it.
One wonders, however, if there will really be anything left of Iraq once it’s over. We have already seen massive social change since [...]

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PWNT

On the left: John Cole of Balloon Juice
On the right: Assorted rightwing warbloggers

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My new toy

Pic: You put 725 5.56mm rpm downrange on cyclic and see how you smell …

Got her this past weekend. She’s a heavy, dirty bitch, but she’ll do.

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O Canada

Your young men do you proud in Afghanistan.

Via Afghanistanica.

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Islamofascism runs rampant

Pic: “Hamas-trained” Islamofascists on the attack. Note “mean-girl” face and terrorist hand signals.
 
This horrific Islamofascist assault at Wellesley is too atrocious/hilarious to ignore. Thank you, Jim Henley.
Even Blackfive knuckles under.

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The enduring ignorance of Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan, 23 Oct:
We never hear about Islamism from the Kurds, do we?
Ummm … Kurdistan Islamic Union … Ansar al-Islam …
As for the PKK guerrillas that Sullivan enthuses over, I wonder if he’s aware of just how many suicide bombings they’re guilty of. Or if he knows who Jalal Talabani’s political role model is.
Not that I am [...]

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Arthur J. Schlesinger, Jr.

To be honest, I haven’t read any of the man’s work, but he sounds like the kind of guy I’d get along. He had all the right enemies:
January 9th 1975:
When I was chatting with Gil Harrison before [Walter Lippmann’s memorial] service, he confided that he had just resigned as editor of the New Republic. I [...]

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The best movie of the year

An excellent film that leaves you hollow at the end. Not a crowdpleaser, but a truly mature work with moral resonance. Forget Mystic River or The Departed, this is the Boston movie, and the best by far of the three. Yes, Ben Affleck outdirected and outwrote Martin Scorsese, and it’s not even close.
It’s so refreshing [...]

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‘24′ is bullshit.

So say the real professionals — men like Colonel Stuart A. Herrington.
Two  problems with torture – it’s wrong and it doesn’t work.
Recently revealed White House memos have raised the ugly question yet again: Is torturing prisoners captured in the Global War on Terrorism an effective and permissible use of our nation’s might?
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In interrogation centers I [...]

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