Then we'd turned the corner, then the insurgency was waning, then it was we couldn't set a timeline, because that would give hope to our enemies, now we're surging which implies a wave like motion of up then down but I suspect its ...

" What changed your mind?  Was it when we pointed out: Bush was wrong when he predicted the war would only cost $50-60 Billion and that Iraqi oil would pay for the reconstruction? That Cheney was proven to be wildly off the mark when ...

And when we announce that we are getting out In six months certain That will knock the bottom out of the insurgency. And bring together the three groups - Shia, Sunni, and Kurds For a unified ...

Pakistan is poised at a critical moment, with a growing Taliban and Qaeda insurgency and a population bitter and angry with its leaders over rising prices, escalating violence and accumulated frustrations from eight years of military rule ... ...

Obama claims to (vs McCain): be a uniter, McCain-Feingold, Liberman-McCain, McCain-Kennedy, these aren't VP candidate pairings, they are bills McCain has sponsored with bipartisan support not all passed nor do I agree with them ...

Questions the press corpse won't ask Questions the press corpse won't ask Questions the press corpse won't ask Questions the press corpse won't ask Questions that the American press corpse won’t ask the President, but I would like to ask and... ...

Seventeen members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Latin America's largest insurgency, were killed in Ecuadorean territory on Saturday ... Speaking on television Sunday night, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador called ...

It appears the authors have reached their invalid conclusion by casting the military in a strictly limited conventional warfare role, ignoring the success of the counter insurgency approach which emphsizes intelligence and other policing ...

The Amazing Karnacs The Amazing Karnacs The Amazing Karnacs The Amazing Karnacs The Bush Administration crystal ball has been in disrepair for almost six years now Here are some of the more memorable prognostications that failed to bear fruit Were... ...

Had w listened to the experts and gone in with a sufficient force, gave the operation an Iraqi face from the start (no Paul Bremer) and as soon as the insurgency started been honest and real about fighting it, then this may have been a roaring success. ...

Unique Average American Unique Average American Unique Average American Unique Average American There have been some things written in comment threads lately that I just couldn’t address in response to each   So here goes the article: ... ...

In North West Frontier province, where the country's Islamic insurgency is strongest, religious parties won just nine seats in the 96-seat provincial assembly ... " The North West Frontier province's voters turned instead to two secular parties, ...

  Clue three Brilliant, why in the world would Bush have a harsh word about Iran, just because they are fomenting and financing the insurgency in Iraq ... If Iran is helping the insurgency, would it not seem plausible that the United ...

When the history is done, there were incredible efforts by the insurgency leaders in the summer of 2003. I’m talking about the Iraqi insurgency, the former Sunni generals and Sunni and Baathist leaders who were happy to see Saddam go, but did not want ...

Shinsecki and the two previous Centcom cmdrs estimates for occupying Iraq, to the utter contempt for oversight wasting 10's of billions during the first 18 months of the occupation, and the training of Iraqis by the US to only become leaders of the ...