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Feb. 18th, 2011 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerI really like this analysis of the president's role in recent events and of America's in the world.
I came to it from this brief post by Tom Ricks about his conversation with Bob Kaplan. It's shorter, but I think also very sound.
I still reflect with amusement on my one short introduction to Mr Kaplan; I was working at a prominent (now defunct) bookstore in DC well known for its security policy orientation. We hosted a book launch for Kaplan's Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan. I still wish I knew who the Afghans were who came to spend the evening with the author; some wore Italian suits and some wore shalwar kameez and pakuls, but I have a feeling I've probably been reading about all of them for the last 20 years.
I came to it from this brief post by Tom Ricks about his conversation with Bob Kaplan. It's shorter, but I think also very sound.
I still reflect with amusement on my one short introduction to Mr Kaplan; I was working at a prominent (now defunct) bookstore in DC well known for its security policy orientation. We hosted a book launch for Kaplan's Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan. I still wish I knew who the Afghans were who came to spend the evening with the author; some wore Italian suits and some wore shalwar kameez and pakuls, but I have a feeling I've probably been reading about all of them for the last 20 years.
