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Bush says that he will not abandon his Iraq policy unless General David Petraeus declares it a failure in September. Regardless of the truth, I already know the basis of the general's report. With his reputation and career at stake, Petraeus will say exactly what the President wants to...
That fight reached a climax in 2006, when From, independent of the DLC, supported his friend Senator Joe Lieberman, who was facing a primary challenge in Connecticut from Ned Lamont, a blogger-backed antiwar candidate. The Lamont primary victory followed by the Lieberman general-election victory (as an independent) infuriated...
Gathering intelligence isn't the only challenge; Sunni militants are well practiced at basing themselves in areas where it is difficult for the U.S. to operate. Thompson says that the Sunni insurgency in Madain - as elsewhere in Iraq - is divided between nationalist elements and the jihadists of al-Qaeda in...
Jostled awake by the rulings, the Republican-controlled Congress finally weighed in with a 2005 law prohibiting the inhumane treatment of prisoners but also stripping Guantanamo detainees of the right to habeas corpus. By then, though, it was already late. In 2006, the Supreme Court, skeptical of how suspected terrorists...
Critics will decry the fact that the U.N. has taken so long (four years and counting) to consider meaningful action, and even then to not do enough, but the British assessment reflects reality. The fighting in Darfur, which pitches Arab supremacist militias backed by the Sudanese army against Darfur rebels...