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The Victory in Ramadi

This drawing by an Iraqi child depicts the American-Iraqi alliance against Al Qaeda. Notice the sword is Iraqi and the muscle is American. Read Michael Totten’s on the ground analysis of the success in Ramadi http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001514.html

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From Blunders to Wisdom

from The New Republic, Victor David HasonIn a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from blunders to wisdom, the side that makes the fewest and learns from them the most eventually winning. Al Qaeda and the

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It’s Only the First Reel

From The ‘Benchmark’ Excuse Crocker and Petraeus speak some truths, if Senators are listening. Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT For proponents of early withdrawal, the “benchmarking” issue has provided a handy excuse to make the Iraqi government rather

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