Upgrading the CFR
Scrapbook Upgrading the CFR Needless to say, The Scrapbook was delighted to learn that Angelina Jolie will soon be joining the august ranks of the Council on Foreign Relations. Our initial...
...To do that, many of us will live and fight alongside them...
...David H. Petraeus General, United States Army Commanding ? Speaking of Iraq . . . looking for more information on the ongoing military campaign in Baghdad than you can find in your local paper—something, that is, going beyond the headlines trumpeting suicide bombers...
...www.pottymouth.com This may or may not come as a surprise, but there’s more profanity on “The Internets” than in traditional media...
...I am confident that each of you will fight with skill and courage, and that you will remain loyal to your comrades-in-arms and to the values our nations hold so dear...
...To Soldier Again” We missed this when he took command of the coalition in Iraq three weeks ago, but General David H. Petraeus’s February 10 message to his troops is well worth a read: “To the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Civilians of Multi-National Force-Iraq: “We serve in Iraq at a critical time...
...It’s now headed by Richard Haass and serves as the Powell State Department in exile...
...and “Ethical Principles vs...
...But hard is not hopeless, and we must remain steadfast in our effort to help improve security for the Iraqi people...
...It is an honor to soldier again with the members of the Multi-National Force-Iraq...
...I know that wherever you serve in this undertaking you will give your all...
...The first edition of Kagan’s “Iraq Report” can be read or downloaded at weeklystandard.com...
...High Commissioner for Refugees, and stole the show at the 2005 World Economic Forum in Davos, where she talked about her work with refugees in the war-torn precincts of Asia and Africa...
...Allow us to recommend two new online features at weeklystandard.com...
...Also, daily at our foreign policy blog, WorldwideStandard.com, independent analyst and acclaimed “warblogger” Bill Roggio will be publishing a roundup of analysis and reporting from Iraq, the “Roggio Report...
...In the end, Iraqis will decide the outcome of this struggle...
...Gelb’s last journalistic crusade was on behalf of Columbia professor Gary Sick’s crackpot “October Surprise” theory that Ronald Reagan stole the 1980 election by secretly dispatching his running mate, George H.W...
...Together we will face down the terrorists, insurgents, and criminals who slaughter the innocent...
...The theme: “All Things Ethical...
...Godspeed to each of you and to our Iraqi comrades in this crucial endeavor...
...Pitt, in Namibia...
...Real World Considerations...
...Security is essential for Iraq to build its future...
...Our task is to help them gain the time they need to save their country...
...Our task is crucial...
...Can’t Make This Stuff Up The Scrapbook received an email come-on last week for a seminar hosted by Campaigns and Elections magazine...
...The way ahead will not be easy...
...Success will require discipline, fortitude, and initiative— qualities that you have in abundance...
...They will do all that they can to shake the confidence of the people and to convince the world that this effort is doomed...
...Shoulder-to-shoulder with our Iraqi comrades, we will conduct a pivotal campaign to improve security for the Iraqi people...
...There will be difficult times in the months to come...
...Why, just last week she published an op-ed piece in the Washington Post entitled “Justice for Darfur...
...The enemies of Iraq will shrink at no act, however barbaric...
...Its lefty competitor, The Huffington Post, was close behind with 109,000...
...Our initial instinct, of course, was to snicker quietly to ourselves about the Council’s new member: Lara Croft Tomb Raider, the changeable tattoos, the vial of (then-husband) Billy Bob Thornton’s blood hanging around her neck, the tabloid drama of her (ongoing) love affair with Jennifer Aniston’s (now-ex) husband Brad Pitt—and the recent birth of her son (Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt), fathered by the aforementioned Mr...
...We and our Iraqi partners must set the terms of the struggle, not our enemies...
...Only with security can the Iraqi government come to grips with the tough issues it confronts and develop the capacity to serve its citizens...
...But the better angels of our nature took hold, and we remembered that Miss Jolie is also a goodwill ambassador for the U.N...
...Well, that was true in, say, 1958...
...Make that, ideological chasm...
...We’re guessing, when it comes to a showdown, that Real World Considerations trump Ethical Principles...
...We must not underestimate them...
...A decisive moment approaches...
...Its recent presidents have included such eminences as Peter Tarnoff (Cyrus Vance’s right-hand man) and Leslie H. Gelb, another veteran of the Jimmy Carter State Department and a onetime New York Times columnist...
...The truth is, her appointment tells us much more about the Council than it does about Ambassador Jolie...
...No right-wing site reached even 10,000 on the Carlin scale...
...We cannot allow mass murderers to hold the initiative...
...close...
...Professor Sick, needless to say, is also a member of the Council...
...The stakes could not be higher...
...In recent years, however, the Council has served as the Carter—and later Clinton— administrations in exile...
...I appreciate your sacrifices and those of your families...
...And together we must prevail...
...Now, more than ever, your commitment to service and your skill can make the difference between victory and defeat in a very tough mission...
...The Council on Foreign Relations, in its comfortable quarters on Manhattan’s East 68th Street, is usually described as the citadel of American foreign policy, the book-lined clubhouse for those Wall Street lawyers, senior academics, and aging Yale men who guided the Republic into the American Century...
...Bush, to Paris to persuade the Iranians to prolong the imprisonment of American hostages in Tehran...
...The enterprising blogger Patrick Ishmael (newsbuckit...
...We must strike them relentlessly...
...The study “isn’t scientific,” Ishmael warns, “but hey, it’s pretty...
...He did a Google search for comedian George Carlin’s famous “seven dirty words” on popular lefty and righty blogs...
...A commenter at the site refined the methodology to account for overall site size, finding a “‘7 words’ to pages” ratio of “1 profanity every 2 pages” for Daily Kos and “1 every 121 pages” for the Free Republic (“the foulest” of the righty sites...
...Lefty Daily Kos took top honors with 146,000 pages containing one or more of the words in question...
...The hopes of the Iraqi people and the coalition countries are with us...
...blogspot.com) did an, excuse the pun, quick and dirty analysis of the ideological divide in online trash-talking...
...Together with our Iraqi partners, we must defeat those who oppose the new Iraq...
...Ambassador Jolie may well raise the tone...
...Lots more...
...understandingwar.org...
...Come to think of it, Ambassador Jolie will be an adornment and a credit to the Council on Foreign Relations...
...In turn, I pledge my commitment to our mission and every effort to achieve success as we help the Iraqis chart a course to a brighter future...
...The agenda items (among others): crisis communications, direct mail standards (“How far can you go...
...In cooperation with the Institute for the Study of War, we will be publishing in fortnightly installments an analysis of the campaign in Iraq by military historian Kimberly Kagan, author of The Eye of Command (University of Michigan Press, 2006), and founder and executive director of the aforementioned institute (www...
...The venue: “Las Vegas, NV, at the extravagant Flamingo Las Vegas...
...The war here will soon enter its fifth year...
Vol. 12 • March 2007 • No. 25
