Thomas Ricks isn't my favorite, but I guess at some point you read the mainstream journalists you've got, not the ones you want...anyway, last night on the Terry Gross NPR show he again confirmed my suspicions that the "turnaround" and "success" in Anbar is, well, surrender or at least truce with various tribal warlords who have in the past and might well in the future decide to kill American soldiers.
So much for the "you're either with us, or..." rhetoric flowing like so many breached levees from Team Bush.
Meanwhile, another bastion of "democracy," our Saudi Arabian allies, defend their own version of Lamebone 'fraternity pranking,' that is, the doubling of the sentence handed out to the VICTIM of a brutal sexual assault. I guess they want to add genuine physical scarring (if not death) to the victim's emotional turmoil.
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