MeyerBros

I’ve been kicking this article idea around in my head for awhile, but Sam Hurst actually wrote it. Good stuff.

Hurst: New Iraq sounds an awful lot like the Old Pine Ridge (Rapid City Journal, Mar 18 2007)

bonus:

No land, no shalom: Indigenous group wins land battle

We didn’t know about this until we saw it on MCC’s website - and we still don’t know how to get in touch with these people. MCC seriously needs a dedicated “indigenous issues” desk, or at least an email group or something.

let’s assume for a moment that “the enemies” have anything at all in common with “us” in terms of psychology. then let’s think about what event in the last five years most “emboldened us” to fight and fight hard. OK - was that event a time when “the enemies” showed indecision and repentance, or a time when they blew up shit we cared about?

I thought so.

Who’s emboldening who now?

Iraqis must step up! I’ve been hearing this all over the place so I looked into it…

They’re right! Look at this guy:

He’s just sitting there!

from yahoo news:

Except for the weapons of mass destruction argument, there is some validity in each of Bush’s shifting rationales, said Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign policy scholar at the Brookings Institution who initially supported the war effort.

“And I don’t have any big problems with any of them, analytically. The problem is they can’t change the realities on the ground in Iraq, which is that we’re in the process of beginning to lose,” O’Hanlon said. “It is taking us a long time to realize that, but the war is not headed the way it should be.”

how do you explain the largest nuclear military power in the world with a military budget more than doubling any of it’s allies, let alone (much smaller) enemies, getting heiny-whomped by some ‘insurgent’ (that’s a funny term for the locals, isn’t it?) groups in a ‘rogue nation’ the size of my thumb?

obviously, we’re just not killing hard enough. kill harder!
increase the budget!
yee-ha!