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Israeli military forces have used lethal force against peaceful humanitarian activists in international waters: “Israeli naval commandos shot dead at least 16 people and wounded over 30 on Monday morning, as they attacked an unarmed humanitarian and civilian flotilla – in international waters – trying to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza. The death [...] Matt’s Atomic Duss Bin highlights some key takeaways from the just released National Security Strategy (quoted in full with permission from the author): One of the starkest differences between the Obama administration’s new National Security Strategy (pdf) and the Bush administration’s (pdf) is its tighter focus on Al Qaeda and affiliated extremists, and its recognition that [...] Flyntt and Hillary Mann Leverett discuss recent revelations about an extensive use of military personnel in various friendly, and non-friendly nations in the Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia region. These would be military operations undertaken absent a public debate (or even legislative debate) about the merits of what are extremely risky and potentially costly activities. The Leverett’s [...] David Shorr (whose byline always inspires me to read on), on the most recent developments in the Iran nuclear program saga: [The cold-water-in-face award]…goes to Les Gelb, for pointing out how US nonproliferation priorities have little resonance with the rest of the world. According to his reading of Brazil and Turkey’s recent mediation initiative, “the good old days of [...] The Eds comments on the recent conservative uproar over the fact that a, gasp, actual Muslim American (who also celebrates elements of the Christian faith) won the Miss USA pageant: Rock-ribbed American conservative foreign policy savant Daniel Pipes uses his entirely not-creepy knowledge of beauty pageants to uncover a pattern of liberals pandering to the Islamofascists. Michelle [...] Brian Katulis is one of the smartest wonks in the game, and it is admirable that he is still trying to get the attention of policymakers in Washington with respect to the fundamental questions about Afghanistan policy that he emphasizes in this piece (excerpted below). But the fact that he is reminding the relevant players [...] They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Bruce Schneier offers wise words regarding our tendency as a people to focus on worst-case-scenario thinking – or, better yet, our tendency to put too much stock in the likelihood of worst case [...] |
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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