U.S. Kills Jihadists with Stroke of Pen, Creating Violent Extremists as Byproduct
The war against Jihadists and Islamo-Fascists has been won; each and every last one of these vermin has been eradicated courtesy of the United States Government. Unfortunately, the victory is quite literally in name only. The Bush administration has launched a new front in the war on terrorism, this time targeting language. Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 25, 2008 15:59
Petraeus to CENTCOM, Odierno to Iraq Chief
Presuming Senate confirmation, the top Iraq commanders are both moving up one slot, with David Petraeus taking over Central Command, and thus oversight of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns, and Ray Odierno picking up a fourth star and the top job in Iraq. Bush will nominate Petraeus to replace Navy Adm. William J. Fallon as chief of U.S. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 24, 2008 06:16
Bush Pauses Iraq Troop Cutbacks, Shortens Deployments
We'll continue to have large numbers of troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future but deployments will be cut to one year, President Bush announced today. President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the key recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said Gen. David Petraeus will "have all the time ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 10, 2008 11:39
OTB Radio - Tonight at 7 Eastern
The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler, Alex Knapp, and Chris Lawrence will be joining me tonight to talk David Petraeus' Senate testimony, the protests over the Olympic torch relay, a controversy over a popular American Government textbook, and (time permitting) other stuff. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 9, 2008 15:00
Petraeus Senate Testimony Cites ‘Significant but Uneven’ Progress
General David Petraeus' testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today was cautious and somewhat predictable. Key quotes follow with bold emphasis mine in all cases: Since Ambassador Crocker and I appeared before you seven months ago there has been significant but uneven security progress in Iraq. Since September, levels of violence and civilian deaths have been reduced substantially, Al ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 8, 2008 14:34
Petraeus: Iraqi Leaders Not Making ‘Sufficient Progress’
General David Petraeus has stated the obvious: Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday. Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said in an interview that "no one" ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 14, 2008 11:26
Fallon Resigns CENTCOM Post
Admiral William Fallon has resigned his post as commander of CENTCOM in the wake of a controversial Thomas Barnett piece in the current Esquire (see Bush to Replace Fallon on Route to Iran War? for background). Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia after more than a year in the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 11, 2008 15:09
Bush to Replace Fallon on Route to Iran War?
Thomas Barnett published a piece in Esquire on CENTCOM chief William Fallon, a/k/a "The Man Between War and Peace," that hit the Web yesterday evening and is already creating quite a buzz. If, in the dying light of the Bush administration, we go to war with Iran, it'll all come down to one man. If we do not go to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 6, 2008 08:44
Gates Pauses Surge Drawdown
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the post-Surge drawdown may have to wait. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed, for the first time, the idea of pausing the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq this summer. "A brief period of consolidation and evaluation probably does make sense," Gates told reporters after meeting with Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 11, 2008 09:00
David Shuster Suspended for Chelsea ‘Pimped Out’ Remark
MSNBC's David Shuster has been suspended for his on-air musing, "Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" I saw the news yesterday evening and didn't find it particularly interesting but apparently I'm alone, in that it's getting the mega treatment at Memeorandum. Howie Kurtz, the media critics' media critic, gets page C1 ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 9, 2008 08:27
