PuddingTime!all pudding, all the timeLet's say Iraq IS part of the war on terror- August 17, 2006 How's it going, then The insurgency has gotten worse by almost all measures, with insurgent attacks at historically high levels, said a senior Defense Department official. The insurgency has more public support and is demonstrably more capable in numbers of people active and in its ability to direct violence than at any point in time. ... The new assessments provide evidence that violence in Iraq is at its highest level yet. And they describe twin dangers facing the country: insurgent violence..http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/08/lets_say_iraq_i.php All in the timing- August 16, 2006 "One question to ask is: Why now The British police have had a 'mole' inside this operation since late 2005, but have yet to explain why they felt the need to swoop down and arrest alleged plotters at this moment (two days after the Connecticut primary produced a triumph for anti-war politics). The early claim that a massive takedown of a dozen airliners was set for August 16 is 'rubbish,' according to London authorities. So who decided this case was ripe for its public rollout"...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/08/all_in_the_timi.php Sense and...the not-having of sense- August 15, 2006 Even George Will agrees: Cooperation between Pakistani and British law enforcement has validated John Kerry's belief that although the war on terror will be "occasionally military," it is "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world." Immediately after the London plot was disrupted, a "senior Bush administration official," insisting on anonymity, denied the obvious, that Kerry had a point. The official told The.http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/08/sense_andthe_no.php Say it again- August 14, 2006 This time it's Kevin Drum: It's human nature to demand action following an attack. Any action. Counseling restraint in the hope that it will pay off in the long run is politically ruinous. But our lives may depend on figuring out how to make this case. If it wasn't obvious before, it should be obvious by now that conventional military assaults are usually counterproductive against a guerrilla enemy like the ones we're fighting now. We can't kill off the fanatics fast enough to win, and in the...http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/08/say_it_again.php We should never have come this way- August 11, 2006 The One Percent Doctrine author Ron Suskind, Salon interview, 81106: The thinking is that al-Qaida has the ability to attack us at any time or place of their choosing, that we should not view the passage of time as a kind of proxy for victory and view it in any kind of self-satisfied way, that we're doing something that's stopping them from this next destructive moment. What we know about al-Qaida is that they think very long-term. We think in news cycles; they think in decades. They have spent.http://www.puddingbowl.org/puddingtime/archive/2006/08/we_should_never.php |