There is widely accepted (though largely unexamined) conventional wisdom in US national security circles which holds that our military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are serving to stabilize the Pakistani state. Or, as it is more commonly construed, that the withdrawal of a large portion of our armed forces, and recalibration of our strategic objectives, would destabilize Pakistan and, as a [...]
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This Frederic Wehrey piece in Foreign Affairs explores some of the cleavages and divisions in Libya’s population/power structures that could come to the fore if and when the Qaddafi regime is toppled – as well as some of the challenges in rebuilding (or building anew) a society left dilapidated by years of inept dictatorial rule: After [...] by Benjamin Orbach I watched the 60 Minutes piece on Greg Mortenson with disappointment. If you haven’t heard of Greg Mortenson, he is a humanitarian that has built more than 100 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as the best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea (co-written with Oliver David Relin). Three Cups [...] Guest Post by Benjamin Orbach When I lived in Cairo in 2003, I was in on the ground floor of the protests in Liberation Square at the start of Iraq War. I took pictures, I wrote an oped, and there is a chapter in Live from Jordan about the event. The security forces roughed [...] Guest Post by Benjamin Orbach & Samir I Toubassy It is hard to believe that Israelis are watching the scenes from Cairo with anything but dread. Yet, the Arab Awakening has presented Israelis with an opportunity to secure their place in the Middle East. The Arab-Israeli conflict has led many Israelis to believe that armed [...] While details of the story have been partially buried the piles of snow blanketing the northeast, the frenzy of attention paid to the State of the Union address and the draw of the potentially paradigm-shifting events in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world, in what should be a newsworthy event, Al Jazeera recently received [...] Wikileaks has shed some light on the controversial blockade of Gaza, a subject that recveived rare (and fleeting) attention in US media when a flotilla of aid to that besieged region was attacked by Israeli soldiers in the Spring/Summer of 2010. At the time, there was some discussion of the purpose of the blockade: with certain Israeli [...] |
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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