Unqualified Offerings

Oh, me want. Me want.

Some snark in parallel quotations . . .
Michael R. Gordon, this week:
The top U.S. military commander for the Middle East warned the prime minister of Iraq in a closed-door conversation that Baghdad must make tangible political progress by next month to counter the growing tide of opposition to the war in Congress.
In a Sunday afternoon [...]

James Joyner’s interview with Colonel Michael Everett, Chief of the Political Division of MNF-Iraq, is excellent, with better questions better organized than you’ll get from most Establishment Media Enterprise (EME) outlets. Real follow-up questions and pressing on the soft spots of answers – what a concept. Everett acquits himself well enough given the poor fact [...]

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr points out that staggering incompetence on the part of the police and FBI could jeopardize successful terror prosecutions. Alas, he doesn’t realize that’s his point – he thinks it’s something about how, if we don’t grant the President bottomless power to disappear people from the face of the earth [...]

Remember the four Blackwater contractors burned and hung from the arch in Fallujah lo these many upticks ago? Blackwater is suing their families. (A more recent report.) Blackwater’s heavy legal hitters included or include Fred Fielding, Ken Starr and Cofer Black.
Everything about this war reeks.

It’s a public high school in Connecticut:
Jimmy Presson, 16 years old, said his U.S.-history class has a weekly assignment to bring in a current-event news item, with one caveat: “We are not allowed to talk about the war while discussing current events.” The students said that they can discuss the war in a Middle Eastern [...]