How to Look at Iraq

Time-Blog ^ | August 5, 2007 | Joe Klein

[WilDave]

Many readers of Swampland would probably disagree with Michael Yon's position on Iraq, but he has been on the ground, in the line of fire for 18 months and his reports about the hard work and occasional successes of U.S. troops have to be respected. What Yon is seeing now--what I also saw in Iraq, what Michael O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack also saw--is a significant turn of the Sunni population against Islamic extremists. This development is undeniable and encouraging. It points to the difficulty that Salafists are going to have in trying to control the "street" in other Islamic nations: most Muslims are not radical. They like to listen to music, smoke, watch television. They don't believe their children should aspire to blowing themselves apart in the service of a religious perversion. ...

[WilDave]

Freaking ray of sunshine here.

[MNJohnnie]

occasional successes

Just cannot report just has to interject his political bigotry into the report. A for honesty Joe, D for failure of basic Journalistic ethics.

[The South Texan]

As Rush said the other day. The Drive Bys are turning to protect the Rat's flank. They have polling data ( that never will be released) , no doubt, that shows the Rats have gone over the cliff with their anti war non sense. When Joe Klein, whom is an unapologetic Clintonista, echos some of the other liberal intelligentsia you know they are pushing back hard to keep the Rats from out McGoverning the Rats of the late 60 and early 70’s.

[detch]

I wonder how many times Joe has been to Iraq?

He gets his intel from the front page of the New York Times.

[ishabibble]

TIME
JOE KLEIN

NO THANKS.

[wildbill]

I don’t see how he can argue that the surge is working and still say we can draw down a lot of troops.

It was the increase that allowed us to hold areas that we had to just visit before.