Category: Geopolitics

…and the front page headline sez: “Rush to Fill Void Left by Arafat.” And I’m sorry, but I just don’t think he’s up to the job. I just don’t.

Then again, if Bush had been president, Osama would still be at large.

AFP The White House insisted there were ‘ties’ that linked the former regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to the Al-Qaeda terror network. DKo: Even if there weren’t any actual Al-Qaeda-ties, there were certainly Al-Qaeda-ties-related-program-activities. And actual Al-Qaeda ties could have been deployed within 45 minutes.

Found this on the redoubtable Buzzflash. Considering the source, Arnaud de Borchgrave of the Washington Times, it’s a remarkably cogent summary of the situation. Also a little off-message, especially the bullet point that “the war on terror” is a political fiction – “a misnomer tantamount to rhetorical disinformation.” Bleepin’ A, Arnie!

Hey, but at least he was “our” terrorist, kinda. He seems to have played every side of the street, according to a dossier rounded up by Ken Layne. The rundown on Allawi makes Chalabi sound relatively straightforward. I suppose in the interests of stability, if not democracy, a CIA-installed strongman ruling Iraq does make some…

I heard from Harry Shearer’s Le Show that the U.K. is about to rotate a third of its troops out of Iraq (mostly Basra, I imagine) in a “routine” changing of the guard, and that the 60 civil engineers from New Zealand are leaving soon as well. Shearer also mentioned that the Col. Tim Collins,…