What's new in Afghanistan? Nothing, says Ann Marlowe, citing the contorted (but revealing) rhetoric coming from the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs and the House Armed Services Committee alike. The "new Afghan strategy" these officials claim will soon kick-in does not exist. It is yesterday's strategy with a new general in charge. Marlowe suggests we stop sipping the Pentagon's Kool-Aid, and demand that Admiral Mike Mullen explain how more of the same will produce different results. Read More |
It's not just hard to believe - in fact, it is pathetic - that the Kremlin feels compelled to break-up even the most modest of protests-ironically, a protest that celebrates the article in Russia's constitution that guarantees the right of assembly. But that's not all. Vladimir Kara-Murza observed that the police also chased down and arrested a former deputy prime minister and a respected international figure, Boris Nemtsov, and ludicrously charge him with the crime of interfering with the police. It is brutal. It is arrogant. It is beneath the dignity of a decent people and their government. Read More |
In his latest blog post, Alaa Al Aswany takes on the recent slew of conflicting reports about Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's failing health - and the larger question of why this kind of news is treated so differently in Egypt than in the U.S. What does it say about Egypt's approach to government and "citizenship"? Or is that "subjecthood"? Read More |
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