Unqualified Offerings

Has anyone considered how many residual forces it would take to occupy – oops! that word . . . – “58 permanent bases?” I realize they won’t all be Army forts with bunkhouses and palisades chopped from the local timber. But given that some will be really big, and the rest probably home to at [...]

Reading Michael Ware’s first report on the al-Qaeda-in-Iraq document find, one passage jumps out at me:
Documents from 2005 and 2006 show that top-ranking leaders feared the imposition of strict religious law and brutal tactics were turning their popular support base against them.
One memorandum from three years ago warned executions of traitors and sinners condemned [...]

By Mona
Over at AoTP, I’ve weighed in regarding federal appellate Judge Alex Kozinski’s personal website — shared with family members — in which there was some fetish pr0n uploaded for its entertainment value; collective vapors are now occurring. In particular, Monseigneur Professor Stephen Bainbridge makes an ass of hisself over the issue.