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Garry Wills / NY Review of Books: A One-Term President?: The Choice
It is unlikely that we will soon have another president with the moral and rhetorical force to talk us out of a foolish commitment that cannot be sustained without shame and defeat. If it costs him his presidency, what other achievement can match it?
Leslie Gelb / The Daily Beast: McChrystal's Fuzzy Math
Senior military officers I’ve spoken with predict 16 to 18 months at best [to get new troops on the ground in Afghanistan]. McChrystal knows these delays very well, so why is he asking for what he realizes he can’t get
The Daily Beast: America's Dark Side
In a more just world, Stripping Bare the Body would occupy the center of global policy debate traditionally assigned for witless tracts by Tom Friedman or Madeleine Albright
David Sirota / In These Times: A Party With No Punch
In the last month, three unrelated events revealed the nature of the modern Democratic Party more powerfully than any Ralph Nader treatise, Michael Moore documentary or Saturday Night Live sketch
Andrew Cohen: The Khalid Shaikh Mohammed case would put America on trial
The Mohammed trial would be a battle between constitutional philosophies, political and military practicalities and prejudices, and human hearts and minds
Steven Metz / The New Republic: The Civilian Surge Myth
There is little chance that the United States will mobilize enough civilian capability to re-engineer backward states and keep it in the field during a protracted insurgency
NY Times: Military Memo - As the Commander in Chief Deliberates, Frustration Builds Within the Ranks
he strains reflect the military’s awareness in recent months that life has changed under the new White House
David Rohde / NY Times: Held by the Taliban. Part Three - The World of Young Militants
The Haqqanis were so confident of their control of the area that they took me — a person they considered to be an extraordinarily valuable hostage — on a three-hour drive in broad daylight to shoot a scene for a video outdoors
BBC: US arms Mali to battle al-Qaeda
Trucks, powerful communication devices and clothing are among $5m (£3m) of equipment being handed over
WSJ: The 1976 West Point Class of Generals Leading in Iraq and Afghanistan
West Point’s class of 1976 was the first modern generation of military officers to enter the army without serving in Vietnam
Roger Cohen / The New York Review of Books: Iran: The Tragedy & the Future
Weeks later I am still shaken. Iran lurched. The lurching was violent. Still, certain truths have emerged with some clarity from the enduring opacity of the country's revolutionary power structure
WSJ: Richard A. Clarke on Targeting Terrorists
We need a professional intelligence gathering and analysis organization and it would be better if that agency were not tied to, prejudiced by, and often tainted with a connection to covert action
Guardian: Prominent dissident Liu Xiaobo formally arrested
One of China's most influential dissidents, Liu Xiaobo, has been formally arrested for inciting subversion, six months after he co-drafted a groundbreaking manifesto for political reform.
Washington Times - EXCLUSIVE: U.S. contacted Iran's ayatollah before election
The letter was sent between May 4 and May 10 and laid out the prospect of "cooperation in regional and bilateral relations" and a resolution of the dispute over Iran's nuclear program
Stars and Stripes: AFRICOM building research center
While pursuing national security interests is the military’s objective, "Our concern is to take the concerns of the subject first and foremost. It would be difficult to negotiate that conflict"
WS Journal: Warning: There's a 'Sell' Sign In Tighter Pentagon Budgets
U.S. military spending, which rose for the past decade, may be about to peak. That could be bad news for many large defense contractors
Guardian: America a weapons supermarket for terrorists, inquiry finds
Undercover inspectors manage to buy high-grade gear including nuclear triggers and evade export bans
Matt Bai / NY Times: Obama’s Team Works Congress From the Inside
Rather than laying out an intricate plan and then trying to sell it on the Hill, as Clinton did, Obama’s strategy seems to be exactly the opposite — to sell himself to Congress first and worry about the details later
New Yorker / Interesting Times: Postcard from Mardan
During numerous interviews in the school, a mosque, one of the official camps, and on the streets, I heard nothing but antipathy toward the Taliban, whose spreading influence and well-publicized violence finally prompted Pakistan’s army to take the fight to Swat and Buner
USA Today: 'Supermax' prison draws attention in Gitmo debate
Unlike most other American prisons, where inmates are largely free to mingle in crowded wards and develop their own primitive pecking orders, the Florence supermax is based on isolation
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