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P. Cockburn on Iraq1 comment

cjsmith wrote 7 hours ago: From a reporter who actually is in Iraq and sees many different angles than that of the pre-approved … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Basra, iraq, Moqtada al Sadr, Mosul, Nouri Al-Maliki, Patrick Cockburn

Michael Scheuer: Marching Towards Hell1 comment

cjsmith wrote 4 days ago: Michael Scheuer, (formerly known as Anonymous), author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing t … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, US-Domestic, War-on-terror, al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, Marching Towards Hell

Clark/McCain II

cjsmith wrote 5 days ago: Lost in the tempest in a teapot cable news (non)scandal let’s forget about the real issues an … more »

Tags: Politics, iraq, Middle East Politics, Foreign Affairs, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Cole, Wesley Clark

Hersh on Iran

cjsmith wrote 1 week ago: Seymour Hersh is out with another eye-scorcher of an article in the New Yorker. In this one he deta … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, Politics, War-on-terror, Admiral Fallon, Iran, Seymour Hersh

As Good as Post on Iraq as You'll Read

cjsmith wrote 2 weeks ago: From Dr. I-Rack at Abu Muqawama. He details good news, lingering bad news, and potential deal breake … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, Politics, Dr. I-rack, iraq, John McCain, maliki

Iran Failing in Iraq? 2 comments

cjsmith wrote 2 weeks ago: Image here. Iraqi Army unit with American soldiers. Vali Nasr pens a very interesting piece today … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, Politics, al Maliki, Iran, iraq, sadr

Obama and Iran

cjsmith wrote 3 weeks ago: Saw Senator Kyl (R-AZ), a big McCain supporter on Late Edition with Wolf Blizer the other morning fr … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, Middle East Politics, Politics, War-on-terror, AIPAC Speech, Iran, obama

Iraq Blogging From Corn Islands2 comments

cjsmith wrote 3 weeks ago: I had been hoping to do some political blogging and today is the day–and I have the sand fly b … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Politics, iraq, Madhi Army, sadr

Political News Latin America

cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: The big news here the last week has been the reported death of Manuel Marulanda, the leader of the F … more »

Tags: Politics, US-Domestic, Nicaragua, Iran, Daniel Ortega, reagan, FARC

William Lind on Iraq2 comments

cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: One of the foremost theorists of Fourth Generation Warfare on why there is no Iraq: The defining rea … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Law, Middle East Politics, Politics, War-on-terror, Fourth-Generation Warfare, General Petraeus

Reply to Goldfarb on Obama

cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: From Weekly Standard: First of all, I’m not clear on what the difference is between preconditi … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, Politics, Barack Obama, Iran, Michael Goldfarb

Hezbollah-Sadr Updates 3 comments

cjsmith wrote 1 month ago: Big news out of Lebanon, breaking just now, story here alJazeera English, violence is breaking out b … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, Politics, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Mahdi Army

Nir Rosen on ME-Iraq-Iran

cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: There is no better journalist in the English-speaking media world (and hasn’t been since 2003) … more »

Tags: iraq, global guerrillas, Middle East Politics, Foreign Affairs, iraq, Moqtada al Sadr, Iran, Nir Rosen, Badr Corps

This Week in Selling the Next War, er Strike (Iran)3 comments

cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: From Dr. I-Rack at in the indispensable blog Abu Muqawama. The typical cast of characters that the … more »

Tags: Politics, iraq, iraq, Iran

Crack Reporting on Iraq-Iran

cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: From Cernig at Newshoggers, one of the best sites for Iraq (and especially Sadr, Iran, intra-Shia) o … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Iran, iraq, Iraqi Delegation, Moqtada al Sadr

Iran War Rollout?

cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: Here we go again: The nation’s top military officer said yesterday that the Pentagon is planni … more »

Tags: Iran

Petraeus News

cjsmith wrote 2 months ago: [Petraeus in ‘12 stock just went up}. Major huge news out today, General Petraeus is tapped to … more »

Tags: Foreign Affairs, global guerrillas, iraq, Middle East Politics, War-on-terror, Afghanistan, Central Command, David Petraeus, Iran

Sadr Blog Roundup

cjsmith wrote 3 months ago: John Robb: “Maliki routed” Spencer Ackerman: “This isn’t a ceasefire st … more »

Tags: Politics, iraq, global guerrillas, Foreign Affairs, Moqtada al Sadr, Mahdi Army, Jaish-al-Mahdi, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Qom

G. Porter on Basra

cjsmith wrote 3 months ago: Very smart piece. In Asian Times. (A) Key quotation: Revealing the contradictions built into … more »

Tags: iraq, Politics, Basra, Jaish al Mahdi (JAM), Mahdi Army, Moqtada al Sadr, Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council


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