Tony Karon’s 5 Flawed Assumptions in Obama’s Afghan Strategy.
Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
Elrod at The Moderate Voice, writing in response to criticisms of Obama’s Afghanistan strategy for setting a...
Scott’s recent post on President Obama’s decision re: Afghanistan is worth the read. He makes a number...
Best option for a man who thinks he will cheat is an open relationship, I’m talking wide...
Arises via Ta-Nehisi Coates. When discussing Dragon Age, he refers to a potential for (human) man on...
From Huffpo: Zbigniew Brzezinski also cautioned that it would be hypocritical and counterproductive for America to stress...
The news is out on what appears to be the Obama plan on Afghanistan. It’s obviously quite...
Peter Feaver writing in the Shadow Gov’t blog does an e-squat and drops a steaming pile of...
Philip Caputo writing on the Mexican drug wars in The Atlantic. Brilliant (and horrifying) stuff. There’s no...
Spencer Ackerman points me to this Tom Ricks post on David Kilcullen’s speech re: Afghanistan. Ricks on...
Since the wattage of Palin-mania is currently at full blast, causing rolling blog brown outs, I think...
Roger Cohen is on board with ending the Peace Process and moving to a de facto ceasefire...
This story of Gadhafi inviting 200 young Italian women to his house and then trying to convert...
Rob Malley and Hussein Agha have a very thought-provoking piece in the New York Review of Books...
Since President Obama bowed to the Japanese Emperor, thereby signaling the reversal of the victory of WWII...
My Bengals sweep The Steelers (face greginak) and go 4-0 this season against last year’ s entrants...
Mark T. wants us to respect foozball in the Big East. Well, my hometown Bearcats have just...
This might be more James Poulos’s department (or maybe James Joyner’s), but this caught my eye from...
When the Ambassador to Afghanistan tells you the host gov’t is for s–t and not to bother...
Evan Thomas and John Barry at Newsweek take a look at (a) revisionist history of Vietnam, now...
