Tuesday, October 13, 2009

References: The Continuing Global Conflict Against Islamic, Extremist Militancy

This is what I've been reading over the last few months.

No particular order than reverse chronological (as I've posted these links to Facebook).

THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP by Thomas P.M. Barnett (Esquire, March 2003)

McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure'

COMISAF Initial Assessment (Unclassified) -- Searchable Document

Letter From Tehran: Iran's New Hard-Liners

This Week at War: Where is Jones? | Foreign Policy

The Purpose of the Afghan War - Council on Foreign Relations

The Cost of Commitment in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations

A Muslim solution for Afghanistan - Yahoo! News

Peter W. Galbraith -- U.N. Isn't Addressing Fraud in Afghan Election - washingtonpost.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Still Not Tired – NYTimes.com

The Distance Between ‘We Must’ and ‘We Can’ - NYTimes.com

Obama considers range of Afghan war options - Yahoo! News

Rethinking Our Terrorist Fears – NYTimes.com

Rajiv Chandrasekaran -- In Afghanistan, the Middle Ground May Be Most Perilous – washingtonpost.com

Irans Nuclear Threat Heritage Foundation

Op-Ed Columnist - Obama at the Precipice – NYTimes.com

PostPartisan - Israel's Final Warning to the World?

Obama's Iran disclosure likely part of clever chess game - Yahoo! News

The Arena: McChrystal report-what now? | POLITICO.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Real Men Tax Gas – NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Policy Has to Match the Sacrifice – NYTimes.com

The cap-and-trade bill: Waiting for the other shoe to drop | The Economist

Strife in Yemen: The world's next failed state? | The Economist

Even amid a war and a recession, Americans shouldn't adopt a misguided doctrine - By Paul Wolfowitz

David Rothkopf -- Hillary Clinton Redefining State Department and Her Own Role – washingtonpost.com

The Women’s Crusade – NYTimes.com

The Holocaust's shadow over Israel's choices - Yahoo! News

Bill Cahir, Marine sergeant killed in Afghanistan, to receive Purple Heart – lehighvalleylive.com

What to Read on American Primacy

Op-Ed Columnist - Green Shoots in Palestine II – NYTimes.com

US troops now a 'coalition of one' in Iraq - Yahoo! News

A day of reckoning for Bush's 'torture' lawyers - Yahoo! News

Op-Ed Columnist - The Losers Hang On – NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - Teacher, Can We Leave Now? No. - NYTimes.com

Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr - Pew Research Center

The Pentagon's Wasting Assets

Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for 4th - Yahoo! News

What Role Has Iraq Played in Iran?

Op-Ed Columnist - A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets – NYTimes.com

The Next Explosion in Iran - Yahoo! News

Beyond the Banks By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Don’t Try This at Home By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Foreign Affairs - Beyond Iraq - Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk

This Is Not a Test By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Obama Says No to Torture; Interrogators Say Yes to Obama - Yahoo! News

The Long Dance:Searching for Arab-Israeli Peace

Foreign Affairs - Change They Can Believe In - Walter Russell Mead

4 comments:

John Dunkle said...

Damn, Bill, no wonder you're so confused! I read the first few pages of the Wolfowitz one. Can't figure out what he's trying to say, but I know who he is: the singe most important reason we are over there fighting the Israelies' wars for them.

Bill Bekkenhuis said...

I was very much against the invasion of Iraq... I'm more undecided on Afghanistan. I mean, they DID bomb us, in America.

John Dunkle said...

I didn't know that. Those guys were from Afghanistan?

Bill Bekkenhuis said...

John - you're scaring me more than usual.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks .

Bill

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