Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Long Time Gone

Well my friends, for those of you unwavering few that still haunt these pages, it has been too long. Much to get caught up on over the next couple of weeks. As we’re gearing up for election season, my blogging will almost certainly increase. So far I’ll just say we here at the Greater Good had a big night in New Hampshire and it’s great to see the energy that surrounds Obama. In the weeks to come look for analysis of the top contenders, which I’ll almost certainly limit to foreign policy, as that is more down my ally and is the major subject matter of this blog.

For now I’ll just include a few snippets on some things I’ve missed out on.

CIA WMD Report on Iran: Great for both countries; look for a Nixon-to-China type of visit from someone in the Bush Admin at the lower level and possibly SECSTATE after new Admin takes office. Nice move by spooks here.

New Maritime Strategy: Great that the strategy exists, that it’s a joint USN/USMC/USCG strategy and that it’s being shared with the public, bad that it’s overly vague and non-platform specific which will hurt the sea services during their appropriations fights.

Iraq: Security continues to improve as Anbar strategy is exported to other areas despite what Dems and Madam Speaker say. (McCain has always been right here) It will be interesting to see if this can be maintained as troop levels come down.

Putin as man of the year: Complete bullshit by Time as the mag took Putin over Petraeus. This is a liberal news mag who refuses to give the Admin or the military any credit for the surge’s success.

Assassination of Bhutto: scary stuff here. Pakistan is going to hell in a hand bag and now we’ve lost our horse in this race as Bush has distanced himself from Musharraf.

And on a lighter note:

My Ole Miss Rebels fire Ed Orgeron as head football coach, hire Houston Nutt and the basketball team is 13-0: Hell yes, damn right! Hotty toddy gosh almighty, who the hell are we? Flim Flam, Bim Bam, OLE MISS BY DAMN!!!