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A couple of recent pieces on Afghanistan have caught my eye, and the ideas expressed therein are worth discussing further considering the wider implications. First, George Packer relies on the fact that the Obama administration is pursuing its preferred strategy in Afghanistan as evidence that it is the only feasible strategy that could be pursued: No [...] One of the world’s top Shi’ite clerical leaders, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, has died: “His career as an interpreter of Islamic jurisprudence and Shiite intellectual culture spanned more than half a century and touched on every aspect of public and private life for the millions of Shiite Muslims who considered him their ‘marja’, [...] I apologize to Jim Henley in advance for excerpting so much of this post, but it is simply too good to apply the pruning shears liberally enough to bring my use to within acceptable norms of blog excerpting. To provide some context, Henley is riffing off Gene Callahan’s response to a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed that warns of the potential negative [...] Will Bunch is highly quotable in discussing the recent report that shows just how thoroughly “toilet trained” the media has been in its on again, off again – contingent – willingness to acknowledge that waterboarding is torture: On the one hand, waterboarding is torture. On the other hand…. I’m sorry — there is no [...] |
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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