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They’re not sure yet what it was: An explosion ripped through the U.S. embassy compound in central Athens on Friday but no one was hurt, a U.S. embassy spokesman said. Greek anti-terrorist officers were on the scene and investigating. It was not clear what caused the blast. “There are no injuries from the blast. The…

David of Thunder Run has an excellent round up of the reactions from the left and the right on Bush’s speech. He should be commended for reading so many reactions on the left 🙂 I think that I benefited from reading and not watching Bush give the speech because I wasn’t distracted by his presentation…

The insurgents interviewed don’t think Bush’s plan will work: Iraqi insurgents last night threatened to send President Bush’s 22,000 new troops home in body bags as details emerged of the new Baghdad crackdown at the core of his “surge” strategy. The Shia-led Government of Nouri al-Maliki reacted positively, but there is widespread scepticism as to…

Here’s an interesting article on General Petraeus’ strategy for fighting the insurgents in Iraq. It is based on the British strategy in Malaya: A key lesson General Petraeus draws from Vietnam, compared to Malaya, is that the US Army is historically unprepared to fight insurgencies. The American military has overwhelming force for conventional combat but,…
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