Hillary Clinton makes the, uh, interesting argument that her experience fighting off Republican attacks has made her the best equipped candidate to deal with terrorist ones. She also seems to be conceding–and amplifying–Karl Rove’s point that voters won’t trust Democrats to deal with terrorism: “It’s a horrible prospect to ask yourself, ‘What if? What if?’ [...]
Well, I suppose it was inevitable that the Weekly Standard would figure out some way to trash the 7 enlisted men from the 82nd Airborne, who wrote the courageous Op-Ed piece about the unreliability of our Iraqi allies in the New York Times last Sunday. At least the piece is written by other Iraq war [...]
Karen’s right: The most significant news of the day is the LA Times report of the Pentagon’s desire to cut the troop levels in Iraq from 20 combat brigades to 10. As I’ve been reporting for several months, there is real tension between the Pentagon and the Petraeus operation. Some of it is a genuine [...]
Senator John Warner’s call for President Bush to begin a troop drawdown by Christmas is indeed a big development, given his influence and credibility with Senate Republicans and his stature within the party. But it is far from clear what kind of effect it will have in moving Republican votes on the issue in the [...]
