The Reform and Jihad Front
via Marc Lynch's Abu Aardvark is a link to New front challenges al-Qaeda in Iraq in Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry's Conflicts Forum.
It is worth reading.
If you're reading this because I spoke to your aide earlier today, this is the narrative you have to internalize and recite knowledgeably. It is why the best informed of us, Juan Cole, Marc Lynch, Josh Landis, me, think that when our 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month is announced and units and their equipment are withdrawn from Iraq, the tempo of combat operations will decrease, not increase, and that is the only metric there is.
We are the problem, and we can solve that problem.
VastLeft @ Corente offers you a tee that fails to be bipartisan and alarms the Villagers ...