DOUG CARMICHAEL'S ROUGHCUTCurrent events informed by the humanities, psychoanalysis and hopefully common sense(Untitled)- January 31, 2005 Yesterday's before the election, a zogby poll. This poll is very good. It says that Iraqi's want the US out, they want a non-religious government, and they are interested in voting. The bad news is that the Shia's aare I being isolated. The other news of course is that the US really loses, unless we can reframe this as agood outcome, which I believe. Things have moved to the point wher Bush gets little credit, and that leaves us in the US with a major problem. What kind of a US..http://radio.weblogs.com/0126629/2005/01/30.html#a1167 Iraq- January 29, 2005 On Iraq, with elections a day away, almost everyone now wants a good electoral outcome, but not to blres Bush's war. The folowing is about as good a perspective as I have seen. Iraq: Winning the Unwinnable War James Dobbins By losing the trust of the Iraqi people, the Bush administration has already lost the war. Moderate Iraqis can still win it, but only if they wean themselves from Washington and get support from elsewhere. To help them, the United States should reduce and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0126629/2005/01/28.html#a1166 |