Here’s what’s caught my eye this morning:
- ZenPundit Mark Safranski has an outstanding post on Khrushchev’s “secret speechâ€.
- A Step At a Time quotes in toto an article by George Friedman on the Venezuelan non-problem. While I find myself growing more and more appreciative of Friedman’s analytical skills, I can’t help but think that realism and Wilsonian optimism in foreign policy make uncomfortable companions.
- Smash puts in his two cents about Dubai in an interesting first-hand report. Here’s the peroration:
Regardless of how you might feel about the ports deal, please don’t dump on Dubai. They are our friends – and when you treat our friends this way, you only end up helping our enemies. If Americans can’t learn the difference between Dubai and Damascus, we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in the desert of defeating Islamic terrorism.
- Curzon of Coming Anarchy interviews an elderly Japanese Catholic.
- Big Pharaoh has a six-point plan for Iraq.
That’s the lot.
Thank you Dave ! I’m trying to leaven some of the Mil-theory a bit with history these days.
I was getting too deep into an esoteric theoretical zone and I’m trying to balance things for those readers who don’t really care if we’re ” inside the enemy’s OODA loop” ;o)