Posted on February 2, 2008 by Christopher Allbritton
BEIRUT — Anyone paying any attention to al-wada (the situation) in Lebanon knows things ain’t good. The weather is affecting everything, from food deliveries to electricity. Skiing’s good up in Faraya, I hear, though. Last weekend’s unrest was extremely unsettling. Seven people were killed and now Hezbollah and Amal are calling for revenge against the …
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Winter of our Discontent
Posted on February 2, 2008 by Christopher Allbritton
BEIRUT — Anyone paying any attention to al-wada (the situation) in Lebanon knows things ain’t good. The weather is affecting everything, from food deliveries to electricity. Skiing’s good up in Faraya, I hear, though. Last weekend’s unrest was extremely unsettling. Seven people were killed and now Hezbollah and Amal are calling for revenge against the …
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Iranian Hegemony: What’s Not to Like?
Posted on October 8, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton
This week’s kerfuffle over Iranian President Ahmadinjad’s speech to Columbia University and his request to go to Ground Zero indicates that we, as a country, have indeed bought tickets to absurdistan. I was in New York City for the dustup, rousting editors from their desks and pitching stories, so I got to see the crazy …
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Latest IraqSlogger: Chalabi’s back
Posted on July 7, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton
My latest for IraqSlogger is up, and there’s a howler of an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. As I wrote for the Slogger: Melik Kaylan writes a fawning piece on Ahmad Chalabi for the Wall Street Journal‘s op-ed page, calling him the “nearest thing Iraqis currently possess to a genuine walk-and-talk democratic politician.” For …
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There’s Competence and Then There’s “Competence”
Posted on June 19, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton
I’m coming a bit late to this because of server problems, but it’s something that’s been bugging me about the whole Reid-Pace “competence” imbroglio. The question nagging at me is not who called whom incompetent or whether Reid was wrong or right to do so. I mean, Pace had just been fired, so Reid’s not …
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White House criticizes Democrats, gives GOP a pass
Posted on April 2, 2007 by Christopher Allbritton
BEIRUT — U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi came under fierce criticism from the White House for her proposed trip to Syria tomorrow, but, oddly, a Republican congressional delegation yesterday to Syria was given a free pass by the same White House. As Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman, “said”:http://newsblaze.com/story/20070331153944tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html: I do think that, as …
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