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Defense Panel: Next President to Face Crisis

The McCain campaign has spent millions in ads and hours of time trying to make political hay out of Senator Biden's common sense proposition that the next President is likely to be tested during the early days of his tenure. Today's Inside Defense ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  28 Oct 2008
Related Topics: John McCain

McCain: I was against it... before I was for it

So McCain attacked Obama today on military spending, questioning the Democratic candidates stance on increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps. This from CNN: Of course, now he wants to increase it,” McCain told an audience in Lee’s Summit, ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  8 Sep 2008
Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama

How to exit Iraq

Senator John McCain spoke of his hopes for Iraq's future last night. When we traveled around Basra recently escorted by Iraqi Army soldiers and a handful of coalition advisers, we glimpsed a model of post-American Iraq that he and Barack Obama would do ...

From JOHN NAGL, COLIN KAHL AND SHAWN BRIMLEY, International Herald Tribune,  5 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Nouri al-Maliki,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  Barack Obama

Op-Ed Contributors: How to Exit Iraq

JOHN McCAIN spoke of his hopes for Iraq’s future last night. When we traveled around Basra recently escorted by Iraqi Army soldiers and a handful of coalition advisers, we glimpsed a model of post-American Iraq that he and Barack Obama would do well to ...

From JOHN NAGL, COLIN KAHL AND SHAWN BRIMLEY, The New York Times,  5 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Nouri al-Maliki,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Al-Qaeda

A Crappy SOFA

Question: Why is it that instead of forcing the Maliki government to make political concessions in order to convince us not to leave, we end up making concessions to the Iraqis in order for us to stay? What kind of bizarro upside-down world is this? ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  28 Aug 2008

A Gathering Storm in Iraq

There is a gathering storm on Iraq's horizon. Over the last several weeks, its central government has embarked on what appears to be an effort to arrest, drive away or otherwise intimidate tens of thousands of Sunni security volunteers -- the so-called ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  26 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Nouri al-Maliki,  George W. Bush

NYT: Biden as VP choice

According to the New York Times, Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joseph Biden to be his partner on the road to the White House: Senator Barack Obama has chosen Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware to be his running-mate, turning to a leading ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  23 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Joe Biden,  Barack Obama,  Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  George W. Bush,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

The SOFA will include a timetable (updated)

So the forthcoming agreement will include a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. This from the Washington Post: In agreeing to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraqi cities by June, and from the rest of the country by 2011, ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  22 Aug 2008
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  John McCain,  Barack Obama

Details of the SOFA Emerge

After months of negotiations, false starts, and a visit by Condi, it appears as though the arrangements of the new U.S.-Iraq bilateral security relationship are emerging. According to the Washington Post: U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed to the ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  21 Aug 2008

Canceling Iraq’s Blank Check

As soon as I get to it I plan on writing up a long post on the trip I took to Iraq in July and August. For now, below is a section and link from a piece posted on Foreign Policy online by yours truly and my co-travelers Colin Kahl and John Nagl: ...

From SHAWN BRIMLEY, Democracy Arsenal,  18 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  David Petraeus

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