As summer kicked in, we continued our deep dive into Iraq today. No US airstrikes, mercifully. An intransigent sectarian in Maliki. The case for partition. The options with Iran. Turkey’s strange, paranoid complacency. Oh, and the now-familiar but still shocking gall of Paul Wolfowitz.
If you want your eyes open to a different take on the transgender experience, this email is quite something. If you can’t believe the deranged Benghazi fixation on the right, you’re not alone. Plus: another formerly sympathetic observer gives up on Israel’s occupation. And this optical-illusion video deserves some sort of award.
The most popular post of the day was Obama Caught Another Terrorist and the Right Can’t Handle It. Next up: Paul Wolfowitz’s Noble Lies.
Many of today’s posts were updated with your emails – read them all here. You can always leave your unfiltered comments at our Facebook page and @sullydish. 26 35 more readers became subscribers today. You can join them here – and get access to all the readons and Deep Dish – for a little as $1.99 month. One writes:
I don’t have a comment for your thread, nothing unique that hasn’t been covered on The Dish since the recent Iraq crisis began. With that said, I work in the counterterrorism community, where one of my responsibilities is to shape counterterrorism policy for the National Security Council staff. I have the full range of American and allied intelligence reporting to shape my work, which is essential. At the same time, I also look to The Dish nearly every hour for the ongoing political, moral, ethical, and historical debate on the Iraq crisis. I could do a good job with the former, I can only discharge my duties in a truly responsible way with the latter.
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See you in the morning.
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