Bill's Nibbles // Open Post -- 2007.03.02
Contributed by Bill Faith
Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the items within this post as I add new things that I think belong "above the fold."
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- Dirty Little Secret
Jules Crittenden: Gerard Baker, Times of London, pegs a pending crisis: Somewhere, deep down, tucked away underneath their loathing for George Bush, in a secret place where the lights of smart dinner-party conversation and clever debating-society repartee never shine, the growing hordes of America-bashers must dread the moment he leaves office.
- Should A Dark Age Fall...
Jules Crittenden (H/T): “Our culture that … like it or not, and a lot of them don’t … squats across continents like a massive toad, its reach and power far exceeding our military and political influence”.
- Surge into Sadr City
Jules Crittenden: This push is coming, and pieces are starting to fall into place. As Stratfor notes below, it is key for a number of reasons. Sunni pols need to be placated. Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army needs to be removed as a source of instability and Iranian meddling, but Baghdad’s Shiites also need to be protected. And containing and controlling this sprawl of 2 million is no easy task. How, and how peacefully all that happens remains to be seen.
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