Jeff over at The Bernoulli Effect reminds us all that a violent insurgency does not mean failure – near term or long term. It’s been pointed out that the Baader-Meinhof gang kept all of West Germany on edge for a decade or so, with probably less than a hundred members. The Red Brigades, the IRA–these […]

The stories coming out of Iraq prior to the unvieling of their constitution in under 3 weeks time predicts a major shift coming. The news will not be one of endless bombings by dead ender hudlums. It will be of the phoenix rising from the ashes of Iraw 30 years in the making. The first […]

Ed Morrissey posts on something I have been waiting to hear for a year now – Iraq giving Syria a clear and unmistaken warning to straighten up or Iraq will help them straighten up (with our assistance – of course). Here is the snippet from a cnn article Iraq’s defense minister criticized Syria on Tuesday […]

I tripped over this interesting perspective from the World Peace Herald on the global war on terror, and how it is not going the way of the Muslims. Outside View: The Muslim mind is on fire By Youssef M. Ibrahim UPI Outside View Commentator Published July 25, 2005 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The world […]

The good news coming out of Iraq is the Sunni’s are ready to get back to the constitution, due out in less than a month. Sunni Arabs signaled readiness Saturday to end their boycott of the commission drafting Iraq’s constitution while the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad began his new job calling for broad participation in […]

After taking a pounding in 3 election cycles since 2000 on their national security credentials you would think the message was clear to the left – straighten up or wilt politically. But no, they seem bent on political suicide. While people die in rampant bombings in London the MSM and leftward fringes are fixated on […]

The Commissar at Politburo Diktat has some great news out of Iraq on their constitution (despite recent statements by the Sunni contigent). Lots of information there for your perusal.

Iraq is stepping up the effort to take control of their country on many levels. First there is the grass roots effort to defend and fight the terrorists. Now there is the security forces efforts to do sweeps in Baghdad and other regions know to be collecting points for terrorists. Iraq’s interior minister said Monday […]

This is actually a good sign that the insurgents are having the opposite effect than what they want. While the media latches on to the calls for local militia (how is this different from local police and army populated by locals??), the core of this is Iraqis getting ready to fight back. BAGHDAD (Reuters) – […]

TigerHawk planned on a live blog of CNN’s special on Iraq and asked for assistance, so I am giving it a try. I will try and come through and italicize my comments vs what they are saying on CNN. Coming in 5-6 minutes late, the first thing I heard was a bogus claim that the […]