My earlier post about the Washington Post report on the CPA poll showing that four out of five Iraqis have a poor opinion of their liberators was (unusually for me) insufficiently hysterical.
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s utterly catastrophic news. (Well, not exactly news, perhaps; see this USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll from a couple of weeks ago.)
Of course, I could be reading this wrong, not being an expert on Iraq, but if so I’d appreciate it if someone told me why.
So far, everyone seems to be ignoring the story, which just seems bizarre.
Should Rummy Resign redux
I’ve received a fair amount of e-mail traffic politely asking me to reconsider my call for Donald Rumsfeld to resign. Here’s one snippet: I do think that you… are falling into a kind of academic groupthink that is at least…
Could the US get out of Iraq?
Colin L. Powell and Paul Bremer hinted that the US might leave Iraq.
TNR link
A lot of information in today’s TNR Online column comes from previous blog posts. There’s a lot of posts about the current situation in Iraq. Even former CPA advisors are dissatisfied — click here for Larry Diamond’s take and here…