We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:57:29 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Kat] ...so I might as well get a couple of cents in. The propaganda battle is raging over the reasons and effects of the operations in Basra. Most American sources are focusing on the potential political outcome: did Maliki or Sadr win? Some are calling it a draw, particularly because Sadr and his Mahdi/Mehdi army survives, if somewhat deteriorated. As one person notes and Maliki concurs, does a winning party call for a truce? I've seen very interesting claims that Sadr wins, at least politically, that often repeats what can only be called "Sadr's Propaganda". Including claims of a battalion... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:17:48 -0600 Heh. You say that like it's a bad thing, Kat! Bad for him, good for us and the rest of Iraq]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71699 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71699 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:41:31 -0600 He is going to be a pain for a while longer. And we have yet the Iraqi version of Hitler's Berlin Götterdämmerung to go through. If "civilized" European Germans who still respected life would fight to the bitter end, what horrors can we expect from dead-enders who celebrate death?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71697 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71697 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:48:14 -0600 Heh. You say that like it's a bad thing, Kat! http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71695 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71695 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:21:11 -0600 Not quite, but close. He is going to be a pain for a while longer. His schizo organization doesn't know what to do and he doesn't know what he wants to do. He wasted the power of that organization http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71694 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71694 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:10:35 -0600 "Wacht am Rhein" last gasp at The Bulge.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71664 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/basra_all_the_p.html#comment-71664 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:10:44 -0600