Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2712
July 26, 2010
"We Will Remain A Thorn In The Chest Of The Americans"
Tom Ricks recommends Leila Fadel's WaPo article on Monsul, Iraq. Ricks remains pessimistic:
There is
no agreement on how to share oil revenue, no resolution of the basic
relationship between the country's three major groups, and no decision on
whether Iraq will have a strong central government or be a loose confederation.
And no resolution on the future place of the
Kurds and Kirkuk.
Joel Wing studies the connections between terrorism, insurgency, and government:
It's much easier to come up...
Why Listen To Talk Radio?
Friedersdorf's reasoning:
I try the patience of some readers by regularly writing about talk radio hosts. It isn't a fun beat, for all the obvious reasons (hate mail, gratuitous insults, having to listen to their shows)...It is nevertheless important to engage prominent talk radio show hosts by setting down their words on blogs, because otherwise their most indefensible nonsense just drifts off into the air unchallenged, a convenience that allows them to grow lazy in their...
Didn't We Know All This Already? Ctd
Ackerman's guide to the Wikileaks document dump:
There's a bias in journalism toward believing that what's secret is
inherently a hive of hidden truth. That operating principle animates
reporters' practice of breaking down governmental secrecy. But it can
also create a misleading expectation that leaks represent huge new
revelations. And when those revelations don't manifest, it creates an
expectation that the trove is neither useful nor significant. In this
case, that would be a mistake.
...
Face Of The Day
A Pakistani man mourns the death of a relative following a bombattack in the small town of Pabbi on July 26, 2010. A suicide bomberkilled seven people on July 26, blowing himself up at a gathering ofsenior Pakistani officials mourning the assassination of a cabinetminister's son by suspected Taliban. Police said the bomber was stoppedwhile trying to walk into the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain,information minister in Pakistan's northwestern province of KhyberPakhtunkhwa, in the small town o...
Politics And NASCAR
Why are Huckabee and Romney still relative unknowns? Not everyone is obsessed with politics:
Pick something that you pay no attention to. For my dad, I alwayssuggest NASCAR. My dad has read a sports page every day since he was alittle kid; he still gets (as do I) a real, honest-to-goodness localnewspaper on his front porch every morning. He must have seen thenames of NASCAR drivers thousands of times, but odds are he's onlystopped to read a story if it had something in the headline that...
When Lightning Strikes ...
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Shorter Wikileaks
Les Gelb, in a succinct little paragraph:
The United States is giving "moderate" Pakistanis and the Pakistani
military billions of dollars yearly in military and economic aid, which
allows Pakistani military intelligence to "secretly" help the Taliban
kill Americans in Afghanistan, which will drive America out of
Afghanistan and undermine U.S. help for Pakistan.
United States - Afghanistan - Pakistan - Taliban - War in Afghanistan
Chill On Iran
Expect a media neocon blast - Gerecht is already on the war path - for this fall. But Steve Clemons dismisses those who think America will take military action:
While there are individuals in the Obama administration who areflirting with the possibility of military action against Iran, they arefewer in number than existed in the Bush administration. They aresurrounded by a greater number of realists who are working hard to finda way to reinvent America's global leverage and power -- and...
The Full Palin
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