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Since I’ve not held back when criticizing those of Obama’s Afghanistan policies that I disagree with, it’s only fair that I offer praise where due. From Steve Coll: Of all the messages in President Obama’s Afghanistan speech last week (a speech with so many messages that it sounded like a chorale, and not a particularly harmonious one), [...] Although the most recent comments I’ve seen from Rafsanjani have not been supportive of the opposition, Iran’s intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi has attacked him as part of it: “Moslehi, quoted by the official IRNA news agency, said Rafsanjani recently had stated that his views about postelection events had not changed. “‘It is shocking to [...] The New York Times provides further corroboration of Jeremy Scahill’s piece on the use of mercenaries in connection with high level and sensitive military/intelligence operations in Afghanistan/Pakistan. Iraq too: Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in [...] |
Blake Hounshell (aka praktike), our co-founder and main man, is managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine. He's now reporting on the Egyptian Revolution from Cairo. 
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