Stupidity of the AEI exposed. The people in that 'think' tank are a bunch of morons.

[ck4829]

THESE are the people who are whispering military strategies in the ear of the Bush Administration?!

"Tonight, the Fabulous Leader will present his new plan for escalating us to "victory" in Iraq. His recommendations, two months in the making, are likely to be based largely on the work of Fred Kagan at the American Enterprise Institute. Kagan's report, called "Choosing Victory," is, in fact, a 56-page PowerPoint presentation in which critical thinking is replaced by bullet points.

I will try to get to expose some of the logical flaws later. But right now I want to direct your attention to maps used to show critical sectarian divides in the city.

Here is the present situation according to AEI:



Wow, look at all those Sunni! No wonder the report proposes going after the Sunni militias first. Between the "Mansour" district and that upside-down-Nevada-looking area next to Sadr City, the Sunni are taking over the town.

But something looked odd about this map to me. I couldn't quite place what was wrong with it, so I decided to make a more accurate map and apply the same sectarian divisions:

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More stupidity exposed at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/1/10/115451/233

The maps are being distorted to make the Sunni 'threat' look bigger than it really is, or the maps are wrong, but that would make them STUPID.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Robert Siegel interviewed him in NPR just after he spoke to Kerry.

Kerry was quite good...then Kagan came on and sounded like your typical right wing, nerd, slicked down and suited talking head. Struggled to answer Siegel's questions. Our leadership is being outsourced to brownshirts.