I really don't understand why Matt won't take the Pentagon's secret evidence at face value; would they really lie to use about such matters?In related news, on a superficial, fuzzy-math, pre-9/11 way it may look like the incomparable Horacio Ramirez has been torched for 67...
kenneth pollack
I'll have a couple of longer comments on the "foreign policy community" scrum later this week, but right now I wanted to highlight this from Drezner, on Greenwald:During the latest.
A classic example [via MY] of foreign-policy-writer-who-would-be-wholly-discredited-in-any-rational-universe Kenneth Pollack expressing optimism about Iraq by carefully evading the substantive issue:Do you find the electric power is on more continuously?We found there.
This post by Greg Djerejian on the now legendary O'Hanlon/Pollack op-ed is really indispensable; Greg takes them to task on their lack of hard evidence, reliance on impression, and apparent belief that the Iraq they saw on tour is representative of Iraq as a whole....
The Times:The death of a marine in western Iraq brought the American military death toll to 74 so far in July, on course to be the lowest monthly figure this.
I think Matt retreats too quickly from Chait and Douthat here....Speculation about motives can be problematic, first because, in the absence of any written or spoken evidence, it's always going.
Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack's New York Times op-ed is a litany of utter dishonesty and misrepresentation; like Matt, I'm wondering whether any of the Democratic candidates will step up and try to win the "O'Hanlon primary" by publicly rejecting his strategic advice. O'Hanlon and...
Yesterday morning, a colleague with mild tendencies towards neo-conservatism pointed, in irritation, to Ken Pollack's article in the Washington Post. "It's as if," the colleague noted, "he hadn't written a.