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I'm talkin' 'bout jahiliyya, ya khayy
Abu Muqawama and his flatmate, Londonstani, have a running joke about the jahiliyya, which is best defined as the age of ignorance that preceded the Prophet Muhammad on the Ar...
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National Champs!
My how Charlie loves winning. Overtime victory! A 3 point shot that we'll get to watch on every "One Shining Moment" montage for the next 10 years! ROCK CHALK! Thus conclud...
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David Petraeus and His Three-Ring Circus
The circus is in town! The circus is in town! Today, Gen. David Petraeus will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee (step forward, Sens. Clinton and McCain) and th...
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Tom Ricks Is Sending Us Secret Messages/Insults
Abu Muqawama got home from Central London in time to hear Obama's first series of questions. He sounded stuttering and retarded until Abu Muqawama realized his internet connec...
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When Tupelo, Mississippi Meets Orientalist Fantasy
Abu Muqawama went in search of more information on the strikes in Egypt (look here, here, and here) and instead, on Elijah's blog, he found “Elvis, a thieving midget, dancing ...
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Questions for General Petraeus
In advance of Gen. Petraeus's testimony, we here at Abu Muqawama have put together a list of questions we would ask the good general if we were important. Or, failing that, U....
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Gentile vs. Petraeus
Gian Gentile is a gentleman and a scholar and a fine public servant, but it doesn't take David Galula to figure out that we here at Abu Muqawama have some serious disagreement...
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USIP: Iraq After the Surge
Looking for that new report on the options and questions for Iraq after the Surge? The one mentioned in the Washington Post today? Click here. And no, we haven't read it yet....
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Jayhawks in the Finals!
That was the most painful 20 point win Charlie's ever seen. Leave it to KU to nearly blow a 28 point lead (when Roy said he'd left a piece of himself in Kansas, we didn't kno...
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Race and COIN
The Bateman guest-posts on Abu Muqawama today, offering this personal reflection on race and counter-insurgency... *** It occurred to me that some of the challenges we have fa...
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Earning their salaries, for once
Has anyone else noticed that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is in the middle of holding six hearings on Iraq in 10 days? Good on 'em, we say. Like soldiernolongerinira...
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Any of you guys speak American?
From Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil WarsBBC World Service's influential Focus on Africa evening news magazine relied on the commentary of Charles Taylor, the ...
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Strategic Failure in Afghanistan
Kip is constantly shocked to hear that we have no strategy in Afghanistan. After all, the Afghanistan Compact of 2006 explicitly lays out the goals and conditions of ongoing i...
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Recommended Movie: American Gangster
War among the people shares much in common with the everyday fight of police officers against gangs and narcotics. For those who wish a good, brief view of Social Network Anal...
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Dropping the Myth of Reciprocity
In an April 4 editorial, the NY Times editorial board writes of John C. Yoo's un-American memorandum justifying torture by the US military:His primary argument, in which he re...
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The Iraq Narrative(s)
Dave at Small Wars Journal encouraged everyone to read the article by Richard Kohn on the coming crisis in civil-military relations, and Abu Muqawama seconds Dave's recommenda...
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Democrats Try to Figure Out Iraq
A big stink has been caused by Eli Lake's article in the New York Sun on CNAS's plan for Iraq, which Abu Muqawama has read and which recommends a sensible policy of "condition...
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Tiny Insurgent?
First the boy stands at the door barking like a dog to be let outside. Then he dumps his dinner on the floor and proceeds on a hunger strike. This is followed by a bath in whi...
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Martin Luther King, RIP
Today is the anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It serves as a reminder that while we here at Abu Muqawama spend our time studying political...
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Further proof the New York Times (and that unnamed Iraqi goverment official, of course) hate America and freedom
"[T]he ISF performed remarkably well, moving numerous units to Basra on short notice, establishing them in the city, engaging in hard fighting, and stopping only when Sadr cav...