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"9-11 to the Arsenal!"
Is anyone out there surprised that Osama bin Laden is an Arsenal supporter? It just figures....
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Meeting the Guerrilla
Canada's Globe and Mail has this week released a report on the Taliban entitled "Talking to the Taliban" in which its Kandahar correspondent Graeme Smith interprets interviews...
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Two Conservative Views of McCain's Foreign Policy
Following Abu Muqawama's controversial declaration that Barack Obama's combined plan for Iraq and Afghanistan was more responsible than John McCain's (Obama, alone, has a real...
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"There is nothing preventing Iraq from going right back to October 2006"
Karen DeYoung's article in the Washington Post nicely captures two things: One, how tenuous a situation we have right now in Iraq, and how the gains of 2007 can be wiped out f...
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"We either survive this or we are finished."
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has a valuable telephone interview with JAM commanders in Basra up on the Guardian's website: Shiek Ali al-Sauidi, a prominent member of the Moqtada al-Sadr...
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40 Year Old Ammunition and the Afghan Army (Updated)
Abu Muqawama yesterday posted on the NY Times appropriately damning article on AEY, a supplier of ammunition bought by the United States for the Afghanistan Army. The men at A...
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The Battle for Basra: U.S. Forces Take the Lead
The Washington Post is now reporting that U.S. armored units have taken the lead in Sadr City while the Iraqi units -- surprise! -- hang back and let the Americans do the hard...
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More on Basra (Updated)
Charlie would prefer that Maliki, et al. had picked a different week to launch a major offensive in Basra...she has a chapter to finish goddammit! She'll leave the heavy lift...
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Syria and the UN
"There is huge concern bordering on panic in Damascus," said Paul Salem, head of the Carnegie Foundation's office in Beirut. "There is a sense that Syria is drifting into a ve...
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Black Saturday and the Blitz
For soldiers and civilians in southeast England, the dominant memory of that night was less the terrible glow in the western sky than the predawn explosions as the British ble...
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40-year Old Ammunition and the Afghan Army
This is brilliant, damning investigative journalism from C.J. Chivers and the New York Times. Chivers spent several years in the U.S. Marine Corps upon his graduation from Cor...
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Sweet 16!
It's a Thursday in March, and that means basketball! As mentioned previously, AM has suspended trash-talking on account of having his ass handed to him in the first two round...
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Conditional Engagement in Iraq
Colin Kahl and Shawn Brimley have a short, smart policy brief up on the CNAS website.President Bush and his successor have only three basic choices on strategy for Iraq: uncon...
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From the Dept. of Just Wonderin'
Um, sorry to ask, but as events play out in Iraq, Abu Muqawama has a question for CPA alumni Dan Senor and Roman Martinez. Last week, you guys wrote in the Wall Street Journal...
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Who the hell does Stephanie McCrummen think she is?
Memo to Stephanie: We here at Abu Muqawama can only focus on one insurgency at a time. Right now, that insurgency is in southern Iraq. The last thing we needed was you popping...
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Obama vs. McCain: The Real Fight Begins
As soon as Hillary Clinton ends the charade that is paralyzing the Democratic Party in America, voters can begin weighing the respective foreign policies of John McCain and Ba...
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A Town Called Malice (Updated)
You know who was cool? The Jam. What a great band. You know who isn't cool? JAM -- Jaish al-Mahdi. Those guys pretty much suck. Fighting continued yesterday in both Baghdad an...
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Entries from The New Combat Contradictionary
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. From the VQR, some excerpts: An Army of One: soldiers who dump their girlfriends/boyfriends right before an overseas deployment ostensibly to ...
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So You Wanna Be a Hezbollah Fighter?
Andrew Lee Butters, last seen by Abu Muqawama with a collection of table-dancing women in the early morning hours on Monot Street, has a piece up on TIME Magazine's Middle Eas...
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Leave the Scots Out of This, Ivan
Anatol Lieven has a pretty good critique of the foreign policy of a potential John McCain presidency going until he reaches this paragraph:Mr McCain exemplifies “Jacksonian na...