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This, from an e-mail correspondence with the Wall Street Journal’s Anand Gopal re-printed with his permission, sums up why it is both repugnant yet necessary to attempt to negotiate with certain Taliban factions as part of the effort to establish a durable settlement to the many-sided conflict: …Mullah Omar…[is] not that far removed from the [...] I tend to come down on the John Cole side of the Cole/Sullivan debate about whether Obama should fire Janet Neopalitano prior to the results are in from the fact finding effort. Regardless, other than some unfortunate phrasing taken out of context and blown wildly out of proportion, it remains unclear whether she did anything wrong [...] After reading this piece from Michael Ledeen and this one from Bruce McQuain, I was meaning to write this Matt Duss post, which Matt has so generously done himself saving me the effort: In response to the Iranian regime’s violence, the Green Movement protests have grown bolder. The regime now seems stuck in a [...] |
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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