This, from Juan Cole: Only 2,000 of the expected 8,000 extra troops PM al-Maliki ordered to Baghdad had shown up by the beginning of February. The two Kurdish brigades coming from Irbil and Sulaymaniya, which were supposed to have 3,000 troops each, are not actually coming at full strength. One showed up with only 1500 [...]
One commenter to an earlier post wants to know where things stand with the debate over the Senate Iraq resolution. Good question. Here’s the read I get from Harry Reid’s office: Absent what a Reid aide calls “a stunning turn of events,” it’s over for the time being, although the House expects to take it [...]
You may think you’ve heard and read all you care to about the presidential candidate “cattle call” at last weekend’s Democratic National Committee winter meeting (I sure did), but Harold Meyerson adds his typically insightful analysis in today’s Washington Post op-ed, where he explains how the presentations of the three leading Democratic hopefuls reveal the [...]
