Entries from March 2009

March 30, 2009

Cole on Obama’s Af-Pak rhetoric

Obama’s domino theory
The president sounds like he’s channeling Cheney or McCain — or a Cold War hawk afraid of international communism — when he talks about the war in Afghanistan…

March 19, 2009

Ethnocentrism + armed testosterone

This disturbing, if unsurprising, news echoes the efforts first launched by Noam Chayut and his Breaking the Silence project, affording Israeli soldiers both a suitable platform and the requisite anonymity to voice their honest recollections of time spent serving in ‘the territories.’
The organization says it is currently working ‘on a collection of soldiers’ testimonies from [...]

March 9, 2009

correlation