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I just watched the Frontline documentary on Afghanistan. It is really excellent. All Americans seeking to understand the debates on Afghanistan and whether or not to pursue a counterinsurgency strategy there should watch it. John Nagl, Bill Mayville ...
Joe Biden is in Beirut. Unless, something crazy happens, like Biden waving a Hizballah flag and marching to the Fatima Gate, I stand by what I told Laura Rozen a few days ago about this:
"I think there is probably some realism that March 14 coul...
Seymour Hersh, who has publicly distanced himself from the wack-job conspiracy theory -- promulgated by al-Manar and NewTV in Lebanon -- that the United States was behind the assassination of Rafik Hariri, has nonetheless opened a can of worms with h...
Gian Gentile passed along this highly entertaining Australian documentary on the United States Military Academy featuring another friend of the blog, Craig Mullaney (and a funny picture of The...
The most important line in this article on the fighting in Swat:The government has not helped, refugees said, with its erratic, seesawing efforts to appease and fight the militants. Some said they...
Londonstani spent most of the summer on a housing estate clinging to the outskirts of Bristol. The job in hand was to investigate racism for a documentary by living as an immigrant in the kind of area many recent arrivals are housed in by local...
The UK's Department of Communities and Local Government is conducting an enquiry into the UK's government's Prevent strategy, one strand of the government's overall plan to tackle terrorism and its causes.
Before relocating to Pakistan, Londonstani...
Big time attack in Rawalpindi today, where Londonstani went for eid prayers a couple of days ago. The BBC is reporting 32 dead in an attack on a mosque. People are calling relatives frantically. The mobile network is creaking under the strain of the...
Oh, for goodness sake. Nathan Hodge starts by asking some fair questions about where defense and foreign policy think tanks get their money. (And has a kind word or two for this blogger. Back at you, Danger Room!) But Matthew Yglesias takes things a...
