Our famous linkfest of posts offering many DIFFERENT viewpoints. Links do not necessarily reflect the opinion of TMV or its cobloggers.
What Do Middle East Journalism Students Think? You can find out what UAE journalism students think in two posts. First, read Bloggers Attack the Largest News Agency in the World and then When You Are a Journalist, You Are No Longer An Arab
When Donald Sensing Writes, We Read And Consider: He is a former military man (worked in the Pentagon). He gives a different view on the “surge” than you’ve seen elsewhere (including on some of our posts here). As usual, he gives you a lot of specifics to think about. A small part 4 U:
Of all the failings of the previous “strategy� in Iraq, directed by the commanders whom Gen. David Petraeus will very soon replace, the main failing was not keeping the main thing the main thing. In counterinsurgency, as with any other kind of fight, the main thing is killing the insurgents, for which civil assistance to Iraqis must play the supporting, not primary role.
Hence, the “surge� of 21,500 more soldiers and Marines being sent to Iraq does in fact represent a new strategy in the recent history of this war, though not new in the history of warfare. Gen. Petraeus, asked recently by one of the Congress’ armed services committees whether 21,500 was enough new troops, replied that how the new troops are used is more important than the number sent.
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Controversy Over A Non-Aired Iraq CBS Story On Iraq. Why was it pulled? Here’s one view of the controversy.
Some Call Them “Patriotic Terrorists” but is that fair?
A Briefing On Iraq For Congressional Staffers — and Iraq Insider has some details.
If You Had To Choose Time With Your Significant Other Or A Computer, which one would choose? Here’s the answer for some folks. (Well, the computer doesn’t know the proper positions for the toilet seat, EITHER!)
I Have Problems Waking Up In The Morning but this will solve it!
You Just KNEW It Was Going To Happen, Didn’t You? Now there’s a Political Blogging Scholarship.
Did You Know That The Jews Are Responsible For Alcoholism, Unemployment, Drug Addiction and non-Jewish morality? And here I only thought we were responsible for keeping Chinese restaurants open. But some are saying just that in Russia.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.