Author: BooMan

Spencer Ackerman: The trouble is that the Iraq Study Group is ultimately providing false hope for an extended war. Its assessment is appropriately bleak. For example, “Key Shia and Kurdish leaders,” the commission...

What’s up on the left coast?

From page 56 of the ISG Report. Current U.S. policy is not working, as the level of violence in Iraq is rising and the government is not advancing national reconciliation. Making no changes in policy would simply delay the day...

The Iraq Study Group report (.pdf) has now been released. What are your thoughts on it?

There is no avoiding it, someday soon there is going to be a reckoning for the neoconservative misadventure into Iraq. It’s hard to predict exactly what will unfold, and there is still time American decisions to effect the...