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Part of the insurgents' resilience comes from their fluidity. "The U.S. is not fighting an army," says Abu Mohammed, a strategist for a prominent Islamic nationalist group. "We hit and move. We're more like groups of gangs that can't be pinned down and can't be stamped out." The vast majority of those groups fall into a category the military dubiously refers to as Sunni "rejectionists." Mostly Baathists, nationalists and Iraqi Islamists, they oppose the occupation and any Baghdad government dominated by Iraqis sheltered from Saddam by foreign-intelligence agencies, such as Iran...
...probably not the intended audience of Dick Morris’s latest political issue “Condi vs. Hillary: The Next Great Presidential Race.” I like Hillary Clinton.But I love political trash, and Dick Morris embodies the genre. He has worked as a political strategist and pollster for a variety of colorful characters, including Bill Clinton, Trent Lott and, currently, FOX News—along the way showing he has no philosophical core. And even though tabloids alleged in 1996 that Morris sucked a high-priced call girl’s toes, he nonetheless collaborated with...
...part of his image that until recently had been robust. He will also be setting up a potentially favorable issue for Republicans in '06. "This is the kind of issue that the Silent Majority talks about in private but doesn't mention to pollsters," says Frank Luntz, the political strategist who is advising G.O.P. lawmakers on immigration. "It has the same kind of feel that affirmative action had in the late '60s and early '70s. There is a deep-seated anger toward the government for not stopping this...
...with good governance. All agreed that the current presidential administration has tried to govern with tactics generally used while campaigning. They disagreed on the causes and effects of this phenomenon, though, and even differed on the merits of such a strategy. Joe Gaylord, an IOP fellow and veteran Republican strategist who worked for Newt Gingrich when he was speaker of the House of Representatives, said candidates should run issue-focused campaigns rather than “personality fights.” He suggested that President Bush may have eroded his political clout by spending more time campaigning than governing this...
...native of New Orleans, Donna Brazile is a veteran Democratic political strategist and a regular political commentator...