US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad is tired of being undermined by opponents in the White House and by elements of Iraq’s unstable regime end-running him to influence rivals of his in the administration. He is reportedly on the verge of quitting. Khalilzad’s abrupt departure from the diplomatic scene will worsen the mess in Iraq….
My colleague Michael Lind — author of the recently released The American Way of Strategy — has an interesting Financial Times piece on the “Powell Doctrine” outflanking the “Bush Doctrine” today and in the years ahead. I once wrote about the pre-9/11 factions in Bush administration foreign policy.
America has slipped to 20th position out of 163 countries in Transparency International’s Global Corruption Index. We may not have seen him around for a while but Tom DeLay was one of the chief architects of the deepening structural corruption of American politics.
Frequently, critics of the war in Iraq restrict their tallies of the consequences to the country thus far in terms of military consequences in the Middle East — and many actually trumpet how fortunate Americans are to still have high quality, mostly secure lives in this nation despite the hellish conditions in Iraq, Gaza, Darfur,…
One thing one must really give the neocons credit for is a penchant for “truth in advertising.” Joshua Muravchik suggested recently that the Neocons should admit their errors on the Iraq War and then move expeditiously to bomb Iran and run Joe Lieberman for president in 2008.
This chart in the Columbus Dispatch on a breakdown of the governor’s race is really interesting and confirms something I have heard gossiped about here and there.
The McClatchy-MSNBC poll just released has Lincoln Chafee one point higher than Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse in the Rhode Island senate race. I am for the Dems winning everywhere else, practically, in the country other than this seat.
Of course, he is guilty. Hussein was always guilty, whether established by a court of peers or not. What irritates is how the trial of this strong-man has become the face of both the Bush administration’s biggest triumph and largest mistake in the war against Iraq.
Now, the perpetrators of the Iraq War, of the “axis of evil” speech, of the “Iraq will be a cake-walk” line are dumping on Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney. They are jumping ship in order to try and save themselves and opportunities for neocons to influence future governments.
(photo credit: The Online Newshour) In the latest issue of Foreign Policy, Joshua Muravchik — a neoconservative fellow traveler — has published a remarkable article, “Operation Comeback” that combines an offering of a mea culpa for much of the neocon-generated foreign policy mess America is in and then stunning bravado with encouragement that the President…
