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• Michael J. Totten: A Conversation with Robert D. Kaplan: There are few places in the world Robert D. Kaplan has not visited and written about in his books and magazine articles. He travels to countries hardly anyone else even considers ? to Turkmenistan, for instance, during the time of the lunatic "Turkmenb ashi" who transformed his post-Soviet republic into the North Korea of Central Asia. He has an uncanny ability to see conflicts looming on the horizon well in advance and ? reversing the standard relationship between journalists and officials ? U.S. defense policy professionals often ask him for briefings about what he has seen.

July 4th

• Soldier who fought in pink boxers home for the 4th: AP
• Malalai Joya: the woman MP who dares to defy Afghanistan?s warlord rulers - Times Online
• Weary of War, Young Afghans Pay for an Exit | Adam B. Ellick, The New York Times 04.07.09: While foreign diplomats hold out hope that the August presidential elections and President Obama?s new troop deployments could change things here, Afghans are voting with their feet. Last year about 18,000 Afghans applied for asylum in Europe, a figure nearly double the 2007 total. The spike was the highest increase for any major country in 2008, according to the United Nations. By comparison, applications from Iraqis fell 10 percent. ?People can?t find jobs here,? Mr. Ahad said. ?And if you go to a place where there?s work, you?ll be killed in a week.
• War in Afghanistan - CNN.com
• My Way News - Marines march in grueling Afghan sun for July 4: Few even realized the date was July 4, but once word of the holiday spread through the company, several said they knew relatives would be holding lakeside celebrations - a world away from the strenuous task Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment was taking on. "Happy 4th of July, dawg. Happy America," said Lance Corp. Vince Morales, 21, of Baytown, Texas said to one of his Marine buddies while resting under a tree during a break.
• Marines march in grueling Afghan sun for July 4: The company captain, Drew Schoenmaker, said the heat was affecting militants as well, noting there were few daytime attacks theater-wide and none on his unit.
• Episode 1: ?It?s the Tribes, Stupid?
• "Pink Undies" Soldier Heads Home: Pvt. Zachary Boyd, known the world over as the soldier who fought the Taliban in pink boxers, is headed home to North Texas this weekend.
• Oasis amidst war, Afghan valley looks to tourism - Yahoo! News
• The Irresistible Illusion | Rory Stewart, London Review of Books 09.07.09: When we are not presented with a dystopian vision, we are encouraged to be implausibly optimistic. ?There can be only one winner: democracy and a strong Afghan state,? Gordon Brown predicted in his most recent speech on the subject. Obama and Brown rely on a hypnotising policy language which can ? and perhaps will ? be applied as easily to Somalia or Yemen as Afghanistan. It misleads us in several respects simultaneously : minimising differences between cultures, exaggerating our fears, aggrandising our ambitions, inflating a sense of moral obligations and power, and confusing our goals. All these attitudes are aspects of a single worldview and create an almost irresistible illusion. It conjures nightmares of ?failed states? and ?global extremism?, offers the remedies of ?state-buildin g? and ?counter-insur gency?, and promises a final dream of ?legitimate, accountable governance?. The path is general enough to be applied to Botswana as easily as to Afghanistan.
• Come gli Stati Uniti hanno cambiato in tre giorni la loro strategia militare ? Internazionale: Washington dovrà valutare la pericolosità degli stati vicini ma anche quella dell?Iraq stesso [...] e decidere quanta potenza di fuoco vendere a Baghdad. La disputa più pericolosa è sulla regione di Kirkuk, ricca di petrolio e gruppi etnici.
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