- Is This a ‘Victory’? – The New York Review of Books — it is a strange victory. Shiite religious parties that are Iran’s closest allies in the Middle East control Iraq’s central government and the country’s oil-rich south. A Sunni militia, known as the Awakening, dominates Iraq’s Sunni center. It is led by Baathists, the very people we invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove from power.
- Remember Iraq? | Salon — Glad someone is battling the “we are winning in Iraq” and “the surge worked” BS. How do the R’s get away with it?
- Muxtape — The story of the demise of Muxtape– at least in the incarnation we knew and loved