1. Forget McChrystal, how would Lawrence of Arabia handle Afghanistan?
2. Build your own Puke ray gun.
3. Europe: It’s on you, Georgia.
4. What China learned from the fall of the Berlin Wall.
5. The Rubber-Chicken War and the future of free trade.
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nice job, tyler cowen
I bought my copy of ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ last week, and heard John Nagl talk in the spring. Take that, Foreign Policy!
Paradoxically, the idea is that we should take lessons on counterinsurgency from an insurgent. Of course, Lawrence’s nation-building record isn’t what you’d call sterling–remember that scene when Peter O’Toole is desperately trying to unite the bickering tribes, and the power goes out? Putting aside Omar Sharif’s fine performance and that glorious Maurice Jarre score, letting Afghan forces do more work is a sound concept, if uncomfortably close to Vietnamization.
Discourse, I think you mischaracterize the report. Sure, Georgia may have started the thing, but really it’s Russia’s fault.
I’m just upset the U.S. didn’t jump into help Georgia.
The war was proof we have to let Georgia and the Ukraine into NATO asap.
Nice links!
May I refer you to:
“In the Mission´s view, it was Georgia which triggered off the war … None of the explanations given by the Georgian authorities in order to provide some form of legal justification for the attack lend it a valid explanation.”
Or:
“Report: Georgia Triggered War With Russia “
This kind of victim blaming is just the kind of crypto-imperialism I’ve been telling people about. I mean, depending on who you ask, the Poles started World War II.
Putin=Hitler? More than we may have realized.