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2007-06-21 Home Front: WoT

New think tank details US withdrawal from Iraq

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 Except that both Israel and Russia believe that something may happen to induce a de facto US-Iran conflict btwn now and 2009.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-06-21 00:28|| 2007-06-21 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 heh JOE good to see ya buddy! Glad yer back!!

>:-)

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-21 00:30|| 2007-06-21 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 JOE!!!!!1!!11!

We wuz worried-like.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-06-21 00:31|| 2007-06-21 00:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey Joe!! Good to see you, buddy! Throw us some wisdom (or at least a travelogue) from across the International Date Line. We've been starvin-like.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-06-21 00:37|| 2007-06-21 00:37|| Front Page Top

#5 America over the brink of strategic exhaustion..!

GeePers that Swell..

I'll have to remember to giver this one to mr. Shipman so he can add it to ..

"Powerful Islamic Courts.."

"The Deadly Spring Offensive.."

"Sounds like a highly sophisticated attack from a resilient and increasingly organized resistance.."

/lol

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-21 00:39|| 2007-06-21 00:39|| Front Page Top

#6 EM, Alaska Paul.. as always good to seez youse too!

;-)

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-21 00:47|| 2007-06-21 00:47|| Front Page Top

#7 A search for 'Center for a New American Security' shows it has a comfortable relationship with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A look at CNAS' trustees and Advisors sez it all:

Board of Directors

The Honorable Dr. William J. Perry, Chairman of the Board
Professor and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University

The Honorable Dr. Madeleine K. Albright,
Principal, The Albright Group LLC

The Honorable Richard L. Armitage, President, Armitage International

Norman R. Augustine, Former Chairman, Executive Committee, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Admiral Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

The Honorable Dr. Richard J. Danzig, Sam Nunn Prize Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

William J. Lynn, Senior Vice President, Government Operations & Strategy, Raytheon Company

Lieutenant General Greg S. Newbold, USMC (Ret.), Managing Director, Torch Hill Capital

John D. Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress

Board of Advisors

Rand Beers, National Security Network

Dr. Hans Binnendijk, Director, Center for Technology and National Security, National Defense University

Dr. Ashton Carter, Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Dr. Michael Green, Senior Advisor and Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies

LtGen Wallace C. Gregson, USMC, Jr., (Ret.), WCG & Associates International, LLC

Andrew Hoehn, Vice President and Director, Project Air Force, RAND Corporation

Dr. Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Dr. Mitchell Reiss, Vice Provost for International Affairs, College of William & Mary

Dr. Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution

Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Gayle Smith, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

James Steinberg, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin

Round up the usual suspects...

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-21 00:59|| 2007-06-21 00:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Spiraled .. downwards.

Yeah right. Iraq: the veritable land of milk'n'honey.

Posted by 8872 2007-06-21 01:04|| 2007-06-21 01:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, it has. But then again, my little multi-nymed Canadian, why let facts get in the way, eh?

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-21 01:13|| 2007-06-21 01:13|| Front Page Top

#10 damn just look at that cabal. makes my skin crawl.

another good winkle from out of the woodwork, Mr. Pappy.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-06-21 01:19|| 2007-06-21 01:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Actually, it has.

Feeling all warm and fuzzy about it, Paps?

Like I said, the land of milk and honey.

Posted by 8872 2007-06-21 01:23|| 2007-06-21 01:23|| Front Page Top

#12 Warm and fuzzy? No. Is it as safe as walking down the streets of, say, Vancouver? No.

But then again, I do get to read the reports. There is a downward spiral. Whether it lasts is another story. But.It.Is.There.Troll. Deal with it.

Posted by Pappy 2007-06-21 01:34|| 2007-06-21 01:34|| Front Page Top

#13 This "new" stink tank is comprised of Clintorrhoids.

Posted by Captain America 2007-06-21 01:42|| 2007-06-21 01:42|| Front Page Top

#14 But then again, I do get to read the reports. There is a downward spiral.

So, does this mean you'll be leaving soon? Is the mission accomplished? Perhaps you could re-deploy to Afghanistan? What about Iran? Hello?

Posted by 8872 2007-06-21 02:06|| 2007-06-21 02:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Joe! What happed to caps?

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-21 03:29|| 2007-06-21 03:29|| Front Page Top

#16 A Dermatophyte "Think Tank," ... why do they hate us?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-06-21 03:54|| 2007-06-21 03:54|| Front Page Top

#17 Looks like you outfoxed ol' Pappy, 8872. Prolly skeered 'em off.

Now go away and play somewhere else, O.K.?

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-21 06:18|| 2007-06-21 06:18|| Front Page Top

#18 It's kinda funny... a leftard troll over at Protein Wisdom was railing about the "on or off thinking" of the right -- that we saw only two states to everything. Then along comes the troll in this thread, and it can't seem to see the space between chaos and paradise.

If we REALLY want to see violence and horror in Iraq, we should put Democrats in charge. Look what they've done to Detroit, New Orleans, LA, etc.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-06-21 06:54|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-06-21 06:54|| Front Page Top

#19 That list isn't a think tank. It is a hit list of seditionists.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-21 07:50|| 2007-06-21 07:50|| Front Page Top

#20 Ralph Peters would disagree.

Posted by doc 2007-06-21 08:54|| 2007-06-21 08:54|| Front Page Top

#21 Ixnay on the ithay istlay alktay...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-06-21 08:55|| 2007-06-21 08:55|| Front Page Top

#22 As if 8872 would want us to intervene in Iran. He very likely also thinks we were wrong to remove the Taliban, and he's been banging pots to get Mr. Harper to remove Canadian troops from there.

Crawl back into your cocoon, 8872, I'm sure nothing more important than universal health care will disturb you.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-06-21 08:57|| 2007-06-21 08:57|| Front Page Top

#23 Hey, everybody! Let's start a think tank!!

Posted by Kurt Campbell and Michele Flournoy 2007-06-21 10:52|| 2007-06-21 10:52|| Front Page Top

#24 "I tried to think but nothing happens."

-Curly

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-06-21 11:39|| 2007-06-21 11:39|| Front Page Top

#25 I enjoy the occasional thinking myself. But speaking of think tanks...I hope the Burg is getting its hands on some of that lucrative think tank cash. Seriously though, the resources available to the public by way of you guys here at Rantburg are phenomenal to say the least. I have no doubt ye creators and mods are maximizing revenue flow hereabouts through some thinking. Myself, I most enjoy the tanking, and a few short hours from now I will begin said tanking to my liver's ultimate disdain.Cheers!

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2007-06-21 15:02|| 2007-06-21 15:02|| Front Page Top

#26 "I tried to think but nothing happens."

-Curly

MY HERO! All time fave. Best. Curly. Quote. Ever.

(Rates right up there with, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion.")

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-21 18:29|| 2007-06-21 18:29|| Front Page Top

#27 As if 8872 would want us to intervene in Iran. He very likely also thinks we were wrong to remove the Taliban, and he's been banging pots to get Mr. Harper to remove Canadian troops from there.

You forgot to call me a Leftie, Pinko, Commie or something like that. Is that how you rationalize the world to yourself, Steve? "Anyone who disagrees with me must be some leftist scum."

Afghanistan is a lost cause with Pakistan next door. Maybe if you made it the 51st state...who knows.

I'm sure nothing more important than universal health care will disturb you.

Made your millions off the backs of the poor by overcharging insurance companies? Or have you done anything good for the world, without charging millions that is? If not, then you shouldn't criticize universal health care.

Posted by 8872 2007-06-21 22:59|| 2007-06-21 22:59|| Front Page Top

#28 The problem with universal healthcare, little one, is that it quickly becomes neither universal nor caring... and shortly thereafter bankrupts the society that demands it. Like a child eating sweets every day, and enjoying it thoroughly ... until his teeth rot. Trailing daughter #1 had a Kindergarten classmate in exactly that situation when we lived in Germany; I cannot imagine what her parents were thinking when they neglected to say no to her all those years.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-21 23:43|| 2007-06-21 23:43|| Front Page Top

#29 You coulda been one of the cool kidz 8872, but no, you went emo.

Posted by Shipman 2007-06-21 23:46|| 2007-06-21 23:46|| Front Page Top

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