Today's Reading List: 30 May 2007

WaPo. William Arkin's Blog. More on Baseball and Blogs. Uh, what was his point, again? "I would prefer that all Americans saw themselves as team owners: that was the point of my column." Then why didn't you just say that in the first place.


NYTimes. Strife in North Iraq as Sunni Arabs Drive Out Kurds. Story focuses on Mosul. Compare to yesterday's good news posts from Irbil (Arbil) to the east of Mosul. Does this really qualify as positive sign, that NYT is posting something using the word "positive" about Iraq? Of course, it is buried in the story when it should BE the story. No further comment on this positive sign.

There are some positive signs, American commanders say. As in Anbar Province,
some Sunni militants are chafing at the Islamist agenda of Al
Qaeda, said Lt. Col. Eric Welsh, leader of the Second Battalion, Seventh
Cavalry, the single American combat battalion in Mosul.

MNF-I. Engineers clear way for new school. Damaged outpost in Baqubah demolished. Army guys do like to blow stuff up. And the author of the article must too cause that's the focus.