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I wouldn’t call it a revolution, but events in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah are starting to put the Israeli left back in the public consciousness. The story goes back to last summer: “A mixed group of Israeli and international human rights activists have been gathering weekly since August in this residential [...] Daniel Larison neatly summarizes the overriding goals of U.S. foreign policy – or at least, the permissible range of motion afforded the pursuit of those goals – over the past half century or so. Simply put, policymakers want their cake, and the ability to eat it too. Or, put differently, an interventionist foreign policy, [...] Ah, to recall the pernicious confluence of incompetence and mendacity that was the Bush administration: When the Pentagon’s internal think tank decided in 2004 it needed a better understanding of Al Qaeda, it turned to an unlikely source: the terrorism analyst Laurie Mylroie, who was known as the chief purveyor of the discredited idea that Saddam [...] |
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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