From Joe Klein’s good piece on Afghanistan: “Karzai is not incompetent,” a Western diplomat told me. “He...
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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...
The news is out on what appears to be the Obama plan on Afghanistan. It’s obviously quite...
Spencer Ackerman points me to this Tom Ricks post on David Kilcullen’s speech re: Afghanistan. Ricks on...
Evan Thomas and John Barry at Newsweek take a look at (a) revisionist history of Vietnam, now...
This weekend I finally managed to have the time to sit down and watch this excellent PBS...
George Packer has been digging through books on Vietnam as to what they may tell us about...
Br. Will is right that scaling down the Afghanistan effort in favor of civilian air strikes, just...
Spoiler Alert: Not likely. Dr. Andrew Enterline and Joseph Magagnoli (a grad student of Enterline’s) have co-written...
With the apparent (and horrifically bloody) demise of the Tamil Tigers it’s worth I think reviewing the...
Freddie thinks that those (like Reihan) who are nervous about new so-called modest (or lowered) expectations should...
