Threats Watch Steve Schippert on National Review's The Tank blog - Open Letter: My Burden of Conscience


Dear Senators Reid and Schumer (et al),

As members of the party that is constantly reminding America of the superiority of its members' compassion, I find it personally curious that none such seems to exist for the Iraqi people. How else can your readiness, nay impatience, for a withdrawal of United States military forces from their country be explained?...
Also read Steve's NR Op-ed - This Is Counterterrorism, Senator.

Can Petraeus pull it off? Max Boot asks the question, in the latest Weekly Standard, in an article by that name. Certain American political leaders profess already to know the answer; they almost surely had their preconceived answer even when they were unanimously voting to confirm General David Petraeus as the new Multi-National Forces - Iraq commanding general...