Here are some interesting pieces on Iraq that are thought provoking:
That rabid right-winger, former U.S. Senator Bob Kerry (D-Nebraska), who is a former SEAL and was co-chair of the 9/11 commission, writes this week that the War in Iraq is central to the our fight against terrorism by the jihadists:
In this article, a writer from Istanbul spends time in Iraq and observes the battles between Al Queda and local Iraqi security forces.
This is a story about embedded journalists and how actually viewing the action and not sitting back at the Ritz wearing a field jacket like that squaw on CNN have had their thinking challenged by their personal experiences:
Support the troops, send silly string:
In this piece, leading Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis asks if Osama was right:
Turkish Leader attacks secular constitution. Like Bernard Lewis wrote, some Muslims believe in democracy: once. http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD159607: Memri.org was started by 3 individuals, one was former minister of IDF).
Hitchens rips Jimmy Carter in Slate. Can't say Carter didn't have it coming to him. http://www.slate.com/id/2166661/fr/flyout
Hitchens again on radical Islam in England: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/hitchens200706?printable=true¤tPage=all
This last one is about a Conservative critic of the war, a Vietnam Vet and historian, who supports his son when he decides to enlist and serve in Iraq. Poignant.
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