The Iraq Study Group report was released more than a week ago… . The strange thing is that although the report is highly publicized and the recommendations touch on many critical topics few of ordinary Iraqis here seem interested in discussing it and the interest can be seen almost only among politicians. It’s actually not that strange; many people see this report and other political movements as an effort among politicians to make deals that can only by coincidence be in the interest of the people. OmarFrom Iraq the Model Neocons Want a Mulligan on Iraq. Despite the history of the last four years, neoconservatives still have a tremendous amount of sway with the White House. Sharing the same a priori commitment to an illusory “victory” in Iraq seems to be a precondition of getting the president’s ear. It would be good if someone, at some point, would attempt to disabuse him of this idea, and confront him with the cold facts on the ground. It’s been almost four years. Justin LoganFrom Cato-at-Liberty The War at Home. The pundits and politicians on the East Coast have really lost it, declaring the war in Iraq now over and lost — even as 140,000 American soldiers are not only still in the field, but fighting in the belief that they can and will win, and that such a victory leading to a stable government in Iraq will enrich millions in the region and make us safer at home. Victor Davis HansonFrom Works and Days Afghanistan is in flames. The Taliban are resurgent. The opium economy provides livelihoods for millions of Afghans. And now, US drug czar John Walters announces … that Afghanistan will begin spraying the poppy fields with glyphosate. … Funny, that. They grow opium in Australia and France and India and Turkey, but they don’t have problems with black market proceeds fueling political violence or corrupting the authorities in those countries. Oh — that’s because it’s a legal, regulated market. Walters’ planned herbicide war against the Afghan poppy will not do anything to address that dynamic. Phillip SmithFrom Stop the Drug War

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