The New York Times is shifting gears and providing some actual real reporting on the Awakening movement in Iraq which, along with The Petraeus Surge, as turned Iraq from a rolling failure into a smashing success. For those interested in the make up of the various Awakening groups that have stood up in Iraq check […]

As long as Iraq looked like an unending failure there was a chance the Dems could cause the GOP to revolt against President Bush and finalize a defeat for America. That was their uber political fantasy when they took over Congress this year. But when the Surge and Awakening transformed Iraq into a probable success […]

As we look back on this year I think we will find it was a pivotal year for the coming century. I think we will see the beginning of the end of al-Qaeda in the US Surge and the Iraqi Awaking – both of which took root this year (though the very beginnings of the […]