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American Credibility Is on the Line in Ukraine

Plus: Fani Willis Should Have Known Better

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WILL SELBER: American Credibility Is on the Line in Ukraine.

Sergeant First Class Joseph Denny of Franklin, Indiana (R) shakes hands with an Afghan boy during a patrol on June 6, 2010 in Rambazi, a village south of Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

MUHAMMAD TOOK ONE LAST PULL off his cigarette before putting it out next to the other three he’d smoked in our hour-long meeting. He was a middle-aged Sons of Iraq commander from Diyala, the governate between Baghdad and the Iranian border, and he was responsible for security in a few critical towns near Forward Operating Base Warhorse. By the time of our conversation in 2010, Iraq’s security had improved so much that I could walk in certain areas without my Kevlar. Muhammad’s group of former Sunni nationalist insurgents who flipped during the Anbar Awakening was largely to credit.

ā€œWhat will happen to us when you leave?ā€ Muhammad asked. He had good reason to worry. Iraq’s prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia, had the security apparatus under his thumb and was using them to target Sunni leaders like Muhammad.

ā€œWe’re not going anywhere, sir,ā€ I responded.

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KIM WEHLE: Fani Willis Should Have Known Better.

LAST WEEK, FULTON COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY Fani Willis reluctantly took the witness stand to testify about her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she hired in November 2021 to lead the Georgia 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump. In Wade’s acrimonious divorce proceedings, evidence emerged that he used roughly $65,000 from his work as a prosecutor to pay for vacations for the two of them. On January 8, a motion was filed by one of Trump’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, complaining about a potential conflict of interest arising from ā€œself-dealingā€ between Willis and Wade, and seeking to get her thrown off the Trump case. In subsequent filings, Trump and another co-defendant, Robert Cheeley, signed on to the effort to throw the prosecution into chaos.

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🚨OVERTIME🚨

4 Myths About Ukraine that Might Sound Right… But Are Actually Wrong by Eric Edelman and David J. Kramer (Politico).

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