Senior Rice aide, Philip Zelikow resigns from post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Philip Zelikow, one of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s closest advisers on Iraq and the Middle East, will quit his post to return to university teaching, a State Department official said on Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200…..zelikow_dc

Had Enough I guess

Body blow to Rice.

The more apt description is John Locke’s description (from Leviathan) of the war of all against all. The Sunni (Ba’athist remnants, I guess) are up against Shia around Baghdad, sure. But there are also Shia militias going at it down around Basra (al Sadr’s Mahdi Army against another Shia militia), and Sunnis knocking heads out west. There is some low-level ethnic cleansing going on up north, where the Kurd’s are clearing out ethnic Arabs.

It’s a f***ing mess, is what it is. A conventional civil war pits a government against an insurrection (e.g., the American Civil War, the Nigeria/Biafra mess of the 1970s, the Vietnamese civil colonial war of 1948-1975, etc. In the Mess O’Potamia (acknowledgement to Jon Stewart et al.) things aren’t nearly so organized.

BC

I was using the term as it’s used here:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler……drome.html
Believe me, I was not joking.

Holy shit, Pam Anderson is divorcing Kid Rock. We need to ban Celebrity Marriage!

i heard that BORAT finally bagger her;-)

Jacqrat: I’m having trouble deciding whether September or October is the most disgustingly staged photo-op.

I couldn’t even bring myself to clicky the linky for fear I’d burst into flames at the mere sight of it.

:-)

Be Safe! Spark up bongs, not eyeballs!

But here’s his [Greenwald’s]conclusion:

At first I thought that the media’s obsession with smearing Pelosi was some combination of its adolescent cravings for cattle-like demonization of the unpopular, loser Democrats, combined with the surprisingly (at least to me) strong and obvious discomfort with a woman being this politically powerful in her own right…But now I believe that what is really responsible for this amazing obsession with undermining Nancy Pelosi before she even starts — over matters as seemingly irrelevant (in the grand scheme of things) as Steny Hoyer and Jane Harman, no less — is that institutionalized Beltway personalities fear a repudiation of the rotten system on which they depend and of which they are such integral parts.

Glenn Greenwald is an amazingly fair-minded man. I would never have given the “institutionalized Beltway personalities” so much benefit of the doubt as a three-week waiting period before I decided they were demonizing Pelosi in hopes of drawing attention away from the hand they so obviously have stuck in the cookie jar.

I couldn’t even bring myself to clicky the linky for fear I’d burst into flames at the mere sight of it.

:-)

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…../65526/365