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Unremarkably, the Obama administration has not been able to turn around the slide in Afghanistan, and the prospects going forward are bleak: A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, saying that its abilities are expanding and its operations are increasing in sophistication, despite recent major offensives [...] John Cole spotted something interesting in the media’s coverage of recent revelations of widespread torture in Iraqi government prisons: the New York Times, Washington Post and NPR all use the word “torture” to, rightly, describe the type of abuse endured by the detainees in question. While that might seem like a mundane observation (media outlets using [...] A recently leaked memo from Defense Secretary Gates has caused a bit of a stir in foreign policy circles due to the arguable “bombshell” lurking in the lede: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective [...] The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. — Winston Churchill I believe these are [...] Brian Katulis highlights a telling aspect of the controversey surrounding WikiLeaks’ release of video showing a U.S. Apache helicopter gunning down civilians, including a van arriving on the scene to evacuate the wounded: the story barely made a ripple in Iraq. That’s not necessarily a good thing: GWEN IFILL: Rod, there — on a related subject, there [...] So far we’ve had the New START Treaty completed by the negotiators and signed by the presidents of the United States and Russia. It lowers the numbers of nuclear weapons and lists the ways each side can track the other’s. To come: ratification by the US Senate and Russian Duma. Treaty, Protocol, and videos [...] by Cheryl Rofer There are a number of ways to look at the NPR, and I hope to hit several of them in several posts. But I think that the most important aspects of this NPR are broad and long-term. The first NPR was in 1993; the idea of such a review came from [...] |
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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