Visser goes 2.0
The wise and well-informed analyst of Iraq affairs Reidar Visser has responded to the pleadings of the masses (well mine, anyway) and created a blog, Iraq and Gulf Analysis, on which he's posting his shorter research notes as well as links to his longer analytical pieces.
Mainly, this past week, he's been writing about the ISCI succession and the newly reconfigured Shiite bloc, the INA. He's also loaded onto the blog all his past pieces, which are thereby now handily archived and accessible for us.
Thanks for doing this, Reidar! Now all your work will show up in a timely way on my Google Reader.
And you can now get RV's notebook pieces coming up in your RSS.
Thanks for publicizing this link. Very informative.
Good. Excellent. At least some of your commenters might get a reality check if they bother to read it. If one reads Visser in conjunction with Kazimi at Talisman Gate one can form informed and balanced perspective on shiite politics and the vitality of the political parliamentary debate that is enabled by the Iraq constitution. At the very least they are an antidote to the sunni arabist born-to-rule, often saudi financed perspective/propaganda of many US blogs which claim to be Left/liberal!
At the very least they are an antidote to the sunni arabist born-to-rule, often saudi financed perspective/propaganda of many US blogs which claim to be Left/liberal!
Which links are those, bb?
U.S. cool to Israel's settlement plan
"We regret the reports of Israel's plans to approve additional settlement construction," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement. "Continued settlement activity is inconsistent with Israel's commitment under the road map" developed as a guide for peace in the Middle East.
And there you have it. The utter capitulation, as predestined by his acceptance of 800 million dollars in bribes, of Barack The Bought-Man Obama, and his faithful supporters, to "the way things are".
"Not with a bang but a whimper," they go quietly into the night of appeasement. And the vile monster again raises its head and looms above humanity, this time in Israel.
"If one reads Visser in conjunction with Kazimi at Talisman Gate one can form informed and balanced perspective on shiite politics and the vitality of the political parliamentary debate that is enabled by the Iraq constitution."
More likely, bb, one would be in a state of total confusion. Visser - the true historian - with his almost obsessive demand for proofs combined with Kazimi's exile fantasies??
Steve, bb, who has never set foot in Iraq, or studied it in any serious way, is obsessed with the whole Sunni/Shi`a thing. She speaks authoritatively about it despite her lack of any knowledge at all. She is a bit like a fly buzzing about the room - harmless, but moderately annoying.
Thanks for the advice Shirin, but there's no harm in passing the time with a little fly-swatting, is there?
:)
Sunni/Shi'a obsessions abound. I suppose it's easier than getting one's head around tricky things like politics....