HEY IRAQ, HOW’S THAT WITHDRAWAL GOING? Peter Feaver, formerly of the NSC, has some sharp analysis over at Shadow Government, including an improbable comparison of Hillary Clinton to Dick Cheney:
These [recent] attacks may simply be what Secretary Clinton has called “a signal that the rejectionists fear Iraq is going in the right direction.” This sounds eerily like the much-derided claim by Vice President Cheney that similar attacks back in 2006 were a sign of “desperation” on the part of terrorists. It may have been a sign of desperation, but, at least in 2006, the terrorists were able to use them to seize the initiative.