Meet the new US Commander to AfghanistanThe Rolling Stone article on Stanley McChrystal, the top US Commander to Afghanistan, managed to lose McChrystal his job and now General David Petraeus has taken over. Was he the right choice?
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Greenspan reveals: 1.2 million lives traded for oil
Alan Greenspan, the Grand Poobah of American finance, has written in his memoirs that the Iraq war is “largely about oil”. But it won’t matter, Murdoch, Wolfowitz and several million anti-war protesters have all made the same connection, and yet any mention of the oil-war nexus still causes sniggers amongst the commentariat.
David Petraeus: finding reasons for optimism in Iraq
When the then lieutenant general Petraeus talked up the war for the Washington Post, the “tangible progress” he identified came from the old plan (remember “as-Iraqis-stand-up-we-stand-down”?).
