Just when you thought things might be going well in Iraq, you read this
Kurds quietly ready for civil war
By Tom Lasseter
Knight Ridder NewspapersKIRKUK, Iraq — Iraq’s Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq’s third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.
Oh boy. And just yesterday, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Which is why the utopian idea that we really could transform Iraq is slowly yielding to the meliorist notion that we can help guide it haphazardly, and dangerously, forward.Which is why the utopian idea that we really could transform Iraq is slowly yielding to the meliorist notion that we can help guide it haphazardly, and dangerously, forward.
You call this forward?
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Al Gore’s plan for energy independence, Obama’s trip overseas, and finally, the bailout of Fannie and Freddie.
Links Mentioned: Al Gore’s plan … articles on carbon-neutral communities in The New Yorker and the NYT.
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