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Turning the Wrong $@#*()&%# Corner, Redux – I think history may well decide that the day the CPA closed Baby Sadr’s toy paper was the day we definitively lost the Iraq War. They’ll disagree on whether it was inevitable, which has been pretty much my position. See Rafe Colburn for historical parallels. Rafe has noticed [...]

Dept. of Old Business – I believe generally pro-US Iraqi blogger Zayed was called all kinds of names for insisting that US troops dragged off a couple of locals near Samarra and caused one to drown. Comes today’s Washington Post:
The Army is investigating an allegation that U.S. troops killed an Iraqi detainee when they forced [...]

Just Kos – Am I required to have an opinion on last week’s dustup over Marcos Zuniga’s deprecation of the contract security personnel killed and mutilated in Fallujah? Crap. That’s what I figured. How about if I have a bunch of opinions?
1) Private Military Corporations are inherently problematic institutions. This gets to why I’m not [...]

This Time They’ve Gone Too Far – Not just mass murder, but now Spanish Islamists step on a perfectly good punch line.
Four terrorists and a Spanish special forces officer died. I feel bad about the Spanish special forces officer.
The special forces officer who died in the explosion was identified Sunday as Javier Torrontera, 41. He [...]

We’re from the Government and We’re Here to Help Your Culture – RiShawn Biddle says Hollywood should thank the governments of Europe for subsidizing national film industries, making American dominance of movies inevitable, and cheaper to boot.