Shhh, don’t tell Andrew

… he’s a simple sort of bloke, and he’s just back from a long holiday. Don’t go saying too much about this notion that Teh Surge != Victory!
Next thing you know, people will be suggesting that it’s unfair to call anyone who opposed the occupation of Iraq a staunch supporter of Saddam Hussein.

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Teh Surge != Victory!

Over at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Dan Froomkin has written a good analysis of what is missing from the “the surge has worked” perspective on Iraq. Froomkin discusses the argument about the surge made by Peter Galbraith. Some of the key points in Froomkin’s piece:
Certainly the surge has been accompanied by a dramatic and [...]

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Wrong

Yet again.

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Olbermann FTW

Well said, sir.

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Critical analysis

NPR does the job on Bush’s speech. Hurrah for public media.

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Holy uncritical crap, Batman!

Michael Costello (comments available here; I hate the GG’s awful system where articles appear once  as “Opinion” and separately as a “blog”) has an article today talking about the Petraeus “report” and the fact that the Democrats are “miffed” by it. Apart from entirely trivialising concerns about an occupation of a foreign country and the [...]

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Chain reaction

Obama criticises those who supported invasion.Dodd criticises Obama plus those who supported invasion (specifically, Clinton).Now, let’s get some action happening to reverse the policy of mistakes.

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Look at Anbar

A fundamental principle of causation is temporal sequence – a cause has to occur before an effect.
Here’s the problem for those who point to Anbar Province as an example of the surge’s effectiveness.

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All by mouth

The latest word is that there will be no written “Petraeus” report at all.

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O’Hanlon vs Roget

Who knew that “overly rigorous” and “flat-out sloppy” were synonyms?

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