Bill's Nibbles // Open Post -- 2007.03.25
Contributed by Bill Faith
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Some Bill's Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I'm sending you to the original post, some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. I occasionally move things from Bill's Nibbles to longer posts as the day goes on:
- Another American Peace Plan In The Works?
Ed Morrissey: Condoleezza Rice will make yet another comprehensive tour of the Middle East in the coming days, which has fueled speculation as to the motivation behind it. The fourth trip in as many months appears to signal that the US, which has avoided creating an American plan for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, may now have decided to risk the damage to our credibility by crafting our own solution: ...
- March 25, 2003
"Critter" Crittenden: We spent half a day on the road, moving farther to the northwest, toward Karbala, back out into the open desert. We stopped near a scattering of cinderblocks, weather-beaten boots, rusty jerry cans, military truck frames and other junk half buried in sand. Most of the company’s tanks spread out in a long line facing the northwest, dispersed every 200 feet or so, with other tanks covering our flanks. Our more lightly armored vehicles – the fire-support Bradley, the medic tracks, the maintenance trucks and tracks and the M577 tactical operations center – were within this perimeter, an area of perhaps a square kilometer. We could see the vehicles of Task Force 4-64 HQ and the supply train formed up about half a kilometer behind us to the southeast. Cyclone Company and Attack were somewhere back there forming the rest of the battalion’s protective perimeter. A dusty haze turned into a full-blown duststorm by mid-afternoon. It was like a blizzard, engulfing everything, reducing visibility to a matter of feet. We hunkered down in our vehicles, barely able to make out the tracks just 50 feet away from us. ...
- Those Left Behind By Evolution
Ed Morrissey: Mitt Romney has described the shift in his positions on abortion and other issues as an evolution, a gradual change that occurred when he broadened his perspective as time passed. Romney hopes that this evolution will please conservative Republicans enough to support him against the more liberal Rudy Giuliani and the mistrusted John McCain. However, in this case, Romney's evolution has left some bitterness behind in Massachusetts, as the Los Angeles Times reports: ...
- The Other Side Of The LA Times' Story
Ed Morrissey: Earlier today, I wrote about the issues Mitt Romney would have to face in his presidential campaign regarding the evolution of his positions over his political career. This prompted some spirited discussion about the nature and value of consistency around the blogosphere and in the comments section here at CQ. This afternoon, I got a response from the Romney campaign regarding the points raised by the Times article, and I thought it intriguing enough to share. ...
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