IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 141-10 February 23, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Lance Cpl. Matthias N. Hanson, 20, of Buffalo, Ky., died Feb. 21 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 6th [...]

This may ramble a bit, but Peter Feaver’s well-timed warning against diverting our national attention away from Iraq makes me wonder if it’s not time to just concede, as a nation, that we’re just not capable of fighting two wars at once without half-assing at least one of them. Over the last several years, there’s [...]

Hershel Smith reads my friend Reader C’s ambivalence and adds some sensible comments of his own. Blockquoting would strip the nuance from what he says, so better to just read his whole post.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 136-10 February 16, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Eckard, 30, of Hickory, N.C., died Feb. 20 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 8th Engineer Support [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 135-10 February 16, 2010 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Lance Cpl. Adam D. Peak, 25, of Florence, Ky., died Feb. 21 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd [...]

Michael Hastings gets his hands on a poll conducted for a “major political candidate” in Iraq ahead of next month’s parliamentary election. I always retreat to skepticism when it comes to polling Iraq. Still, these are some vivid numbers: In Baghdad 65% of people want someone other than Maliki as Prime Minister and fewer people [...]

One rather anodyne answer in a press conference — “I don’t think it’s so much about Iranian interference that would delay our withdrawal, but it’s about the overall situation in Iraq and if Iran and any other country would cause some significant change in the conditions in Iraq, we certainly would have to consider our [...]

Lindsey Graham is telling reporters about an emerging deal with Rahm Emanuel to close Guantanamo in exchange for stopping civilian trials for suspected terrorists: The South Carolina senator said that in a series of meetings and phone calls over the last “several weeks,” he has pressed to establish a new national security court that would [...]

That’s Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), making excuses for the sick fuck who flew his plane into the Austin IRS building, as recorded by ThinkProgress. I’m so old I remember when any effort on the part of liberals to even understand the motivations of insurgents in Iraq was declared equivalent to condoning the murder of children. [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 134-10 February 22, 2010 DOD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Cpl. Gregory S. Stultz, 22, of Brazil, Ind., died Feb. 19 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd [...]