links for 2007-03-29
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The Washington Post has a piece this morning on the latest report from noted military analyst, retired general Barry McCaffrey. The West Point professor does an annual 80 page briefing, interviewing commanders on the ground in Iraq,a dn in contrast to the
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Alan Greenspan, Mr Bernanke’s predecessor, used to enjoy baffling the markets: he called it “constructive ambiguity”. Mr Bernanke does not. He believes in clear central bank communication, even if he is not always successful in achieving it. For
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The greatest fallacy of all is in McCain's assumption that short-term changes in the Baghdad security environment, produced by deploying an extra US division there, can necessarily be translated into long-term gains. It is much more likely that guerrillas
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Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and other Democrats are raising concerns about Fox's nomination to be ambassador to Belgium because of a $50,000 contribution Fox made in 2004 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.... With a vote on Fox expected Wednesday in the
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President Bush enjoys hosting formal state dinners about as much as having a root canal. Or proposing tax increases. So his decision to schedule a mid-April White House gala for Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah signified the president's high regard for an Ara
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What Hanson does instead is to make arguments like, “At the real battle, there weren’t rhinoceroses or elephants in the Persian army. Their king, Xerxes, was bearded and sat on a throne high above the battle; he wasn’t, as in the movie, bald and sex
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Sean-Paul Kelley notes that King Abdullah, the source of all that is black and viscous in our life, may be tiring of our games: I noted two related stories this morn, one in the NYT and one in WaPo that I think are big time indicators with big time neg
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The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learnt. Iraqi Health Ministry figures put the toll at less than 10% of the total in the survey, published in th
