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[winterbadger]

yet another interesting piece

This time an article by Stephen Coll, former foreign correspondent for the Post and holder of a pile of awards for outstanding journalism, on how it is that al-Qaida is such a failure but still manages to stay in the game.

and a fascinating series on what happened in a small Afghan village last summer, but more importantly why and what did we learn from it (being revisited now because it appears the Army is finally try to do that second part however unwillingly).

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to Ricks. I just subscribed to his RSS feed. (Of course I have no idea how often I'll get to *read* it, but still...)

[winterbadger]

De nada, senor. You're always putting me onto good stuff.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I like what he had to say about Robert Gates in an earlier article. (That he may be the best SecDef ever.) Pity we had to suffer through DR to get to him.