Josh vs. Al Qaeda

"As soon as the sharif was outta their hair..."

Thursday, August 14, 2008

"You Have to Be with the Democratic Forces"

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There are a couple of things in today's NYT article about the big news from Pakistan (Musharraf is expected to resign soon) that need...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The Best Offense...

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The NYT filed this scary report today: Al Qaeda’s success in forging close ties to Pakistani militant groups has given it an increasingly ...

Lebanon's Radicals? Not Hezbollah

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One of the earliest posts on this blog was a profile of the radical Lebanese Sunni group, Fatah al-Islam. (I occasionally profile people an...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Post-Misstep Policy: Pakistan

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There's some big (and good) news out of Pakistan today: The leader of the Pakistan People's Party, Asif Ali Zardari, and the leader...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Staight Out of Tehran

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Given the subtitle of this blog—the prize lyric from "Rock the Casbah," the Clash's prescient takedown of militant Islam and i...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Fighting to Go Mainstream

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Today's Stratfor report summarizes the drama along the Afghan-Pakistani border—and the apparent conundrum for the US: The increasing pow...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hezbollah Changes its Mission Statement. No One Notices.

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Ever since Hezbollah's military "victory" against Israel in 2006, the media has been hyping their ascendancy. I've always...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

We Win

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I keep arguing that containment and bolstering the economy (not invading) is the way to beat Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan. The q...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Re: Al Qaeda in Yenemsvelt.

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A former CIA agent agrees with me and writes an opinion piece in today's Washington Post. He concludes: The threat from Islamic terrori...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Al Qaeda in Yenemsvelt

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The NYT continues its drumbeat for action against Pakistan: With a smidgen of breaking news (the latest word from the DOD) they published t...
Sunday, July 6, 2008

Turkey's Loopy Liberal Set

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The secularists in Turkey don't get it. They're trying to get rid of the conservative government ( this time apparently, with a cou...
Tuesday, July 1, 2008

All Battles are Confusing

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Courtesy of An American Pessoptomist comes this scary story about war crimes that may have been committed by Somali and Ethiopian soldiers...

What's Next?

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The New York Times is rolling out a series of lengthy stories about the reemergence of Al Qaeda. In the last two days they've documente...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

FYI, the Reason the Doha Agreement is Failing in Lebanon...

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... is because Hezbollah didn't get everything it wanted. Yes, as was widely reported in late May, after a week of street fighting wher...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Correct Afghan Analogy: 2002 not '89.

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Al Qaeda wants to set up a pre-fab Afghan War in Pakistan, and the U.S. just might go in. As the NYT reports, NATO was drawn in and retu...
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