Political insight from the Beltway and beyond | Page 2

Fred and Kimberly Kagan have been such persistent Pollyannas about progress–they would call it “success”–in Iraq that it is easy to dismiss their latest offering as more of the same. But that would be a mistake. To be sure, the Kagans still overblow the political progress made by the Maliki government and oversimplify the intraShi’ite [...]