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In advance of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s audience with President Obama tomorrow, Meghan O’Sullivan, the Bush White House’s Iraq director from 2004 to 2007, has some advice to the Obama administration: stop talking about Iraq’s political difficulties in sectarian terms.
A lot was made — both in Iraq and in the United States — of [...]

Here’s what Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Fareed Zakaria about the disgusting Afghan marital rape law:
“Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country, that the law be revised and any article that is not in keeping with the Afghan constitution and Islamic Sharia must be removed from this law,” Karzai said.
Juan Cole:
The [...]

As if this day wasn’t bloody enough already: twin car bombs detonating in a west Baghdad bus station have killed 26 people at least. If I’m not mistaken, that teeming bus station is close to the Green Zone.
Every year at this time, Sunni terrorists attempt mass murder of Shiite pilgrims on their way to the [...]

Ken Timmerman of NewsMax asks the panel what Al Qaeda would look like if the surge in Iraq never happened “and Al Qaeda was allowed to take over Iraq” — which would be news to the 60 percent of Iraq that’s Shiite and never ever would have permitted such a thing.