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Rescue the North
Leakistan: The New Insurgency
Based on initial press reports, the leaking of “90,000 classified documents” related to the Afghanistan war doesn’t really tell us much that we don’t already know. Our Afghan partners are less than reliable. Nation-building is a painstakingly slow enterprise. At least some Pakistanis are playing a double game. NATO forces continue to kill non-combatants, despite universal acknowledgment that doing so alienates the people whose affections we are desperate to win. The insurgents are on the march. READ MORE >>
Journalists Help Military Smear Rival Journalist
In the wake of Rolling Stone's now-famous article about Stanley McChrystal, the military cast doubt on some facts in the piece, with the help of the Washington Post: In an interview Friday, the managing editor, Will Dana, said the reporter's notes and factual matters were exhaustively reviewed. READ MORE >>
Least-Bad Options
Has Liberal Interventionism Run Its Course?
This is part of a debate about humanitarian intervention. Click here to read other contributions by Richard Just, Leon Wieseltier, and Michael Kazin. READ MORE >>
Confessions of an Epistemological Skeptic
I’m struck by how quickly some of my fellow Entanglers have brought up the mother of all epistemological quandaries: How can we, the not very well informed, know what is the case in a far-off land of which we know, well, not very much? READ MORE >>
Well-Meaning Infidels
“When you go to protect people, the people have to want you to protect them,” General Stanley McChrystal recently told reporters. “It’s a deliberate process. It takes time to convince people.” READ MORE >>
The New Map
A Question of Life and Death
Are the basic premises of our current policy in Afghanistan fatally flawed? READ MORE >>
