The pits
Comments in some of the most recent Belmont Club posts have been haunted by what Scott Johnson and Victor Davis Hanson have called depression.March 22nd, 2009 6:46 pm
Obama hints at his Afghan strategy
President Barack Obama revealed part of his thinking on the US commitment to Afghanistan in an interview on 60 Minutes. (For background, see the previous post “The Crucial Year”.)
...March 22nd, 2009 7:16 am
The crucial year
Bill Roggio describes the beginning of a critical year in Afghanistan. “Scores of Taliban fighters and several Afghan officials were killed in fighting throughout Afghanistan. The violence marks the opening of the spring fighting season in Afghanistan as the Coalition and the Taliban surge forces for what is expected to be the toughest year of fighting since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.” Bing West, writing in the National Review (article by subscription) says Afghanistan is “the war that has to be won” but asks, “will our soldiers be given the chance to win it?” West writes:
March 21st, 2009 3:53 pm
Skywriting your love
Westhawk notices an AP story claiming that Iran financed the”Al Kabir gas graphite reactor that the Israeli air force destroyed in September 2007″. The story goes, “GENEVA - A top-ranked Iranian defector told the United States that Iran was financing North Korean moves to make Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to the Israeli air strike that destroyed a suspected secret reactor, a report said Thursday.” Westhawk writes:
...March 20th, 2009 7:10 pm
“It’s a small world”
The former foreign minister of Australia notices that he keeps running into the same people. Alexander Downer, in a March 15 article wrote:
...March 20th, 2009 4:44 pm
Message to Iran
Tigerhawk listened to President Obama’s appeal to Iran and laid out what he thought were the differences between the current and past administration’s positions. The essential difference was that America no longer wants regime change. It wants behavior change.
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