Some Thanksgiving Week Reading: Foreign Policy News and Commentary Update

John Brown, "Too Parochial for Empire: The Bush Administration Conquers Washington" (TomDispatch.com, November 18)
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174864/john_brown_invading_washington

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ISN'T PR: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, NOT KAREN HUGHES, IS THE REASON WE'RE LOSING THE WORLD - PRICE B. FLOYD (LOS ANGELES TIMES, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-floyd19nov19,0,6697363.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

THE DIGITAL JIHADIS AND THE DIGITAL OUTREACH PROGRAMS - HAKAWI HAKAWI FROM THE EAST: COMMENTARY ON INSANITY, NOVEMBER 18): http://hakawi.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/the-digital-jihadis-and-the-digital-outreach-programs/

U.S. ENLISTS ARAB BLOGGERS FOR INFO WAR (UPDATED) - NOAH SHACHTMAN (WIRED, NOVEMBER 15): http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/its-no-secret-t.html

STATE DEPT. TRIES BLOG DIPLOMACY - WALTER PINCUS (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111801114_pf.html
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http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003859.html

BUSH'S DIVINE COMEDY: PART I -- THE GOOD, THE BAD... - ERIC WALBERG (AL-AHRAM, NOVEMBER 15): Imagine how humiliating, if you are a thinking person and have any ethical standards at all, to have to defend with a straight face the current policies of the US government, year in, year out, that is, until you get your head blown off by one of the millions of people wishing to avenge their personal loss.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/871/special.htm

U.S. SAYS ATTACKS IN IRAQ FELL TO THE LEVEL OF FEB. 2006 - CARA BUCKLEY AND MICHAEL R. GORDON (NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 19): The American military said Sunday that the weekly number of attacks in Iraq had fallen to the lowest level since just before the February 2006 bombing of the Shiite shrine in Samarra, an event commonly used as a benchmark for the country?s worst spasm of bloodletting after the American invasion nearly five years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

IRAQ'S NARROW WINDOW: IRAQIS, AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, RISK SQUANDERING THE POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY CREATED BY THE SURGE EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 18): The White House and State Department seem to be turning their attention from Iraq at the very moment when they should be mounting a diplomatic offensive to secure concrete steps toward a political settlement. Such negligence would be another fateful mistake in the conduct of this war.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/16/AR2007111601765_pf.html

GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS - VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (WASHINGTON TIMES, NOVEMBER 17): The US Army and Marine Corps may well soon stabilize the Iraqi democracy once deemed lost. Or perhaps, in the manner of Vietnam between 1973-75, the public may have become so tired of Iraq -- despite the improvement -- that it simply wants it out of sight and out of mind.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071117/COMMENTARY/111170003/1012&template=printart

COALITION 'CANNOT WIN' IN IRAQ OR AFGHANISTAN - GRAEME DOBELL (ABC NEWS, AUSTRALIA, NOVEMBER 18): http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/18/2094012.htm?section=world
http://www.juancole.com/2007/11/us-increasingly-alone-in-iraq-dozens.html


MAKING THE INEVITABLE HAPPEN: EVERYONE KNOWS THE OUTLINES OF THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE ACCORD. WHAT'S MISSING IS THE POLITICAL WILL TO ACHIEVE IT - BERNARD AVISHAI AND SAM BAHOUR (LOS ANGELES TIMES, NOVEMBER 18): http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-avishai18nov18,0,7447082.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

ISRAEL, PALESTINE, CRAB CAKES - ROGER COHEN (NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/opinion/19cohen.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

PAKISTANIS GROWING FRUSTRATED WITH U.S.: ENVOY TO BRING TOUGH MESSAGE FOR MUSHARRAF - EMILY WAX AND IMTIAZ ALI (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 16)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502273.html

MUSHARRAF TIES POSE DILEMMA FOR BUSH - MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 18): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/17/AR2007111700839_pf.html

IN THE SHAH'S FOOTSTEPS? - CLAUDE SALHANI (WASHINGTON TIMES, NOVEMBER 17): http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071117/COMMENTARY/111170002/1012&template=printart

PAKISTAN'S OPTIONS - ED ROYCE (WASHINGTON TIMES, NOVEMBER 18): http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/COMMENTARY/111180012/1012&template=printart

CHÁVEZ AND THE KING - JACKSON DIEHL (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/18/AR2007111800945_pf.html

OUTSMARTED BY SUDAN - JIM HOAGLAND (WASHINGTON POST, NOVEMBER 18): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/16/AR2007111601619_pf.html

DARFUR IN PERIL EDITORIAL (WASHINGTON TIMES, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/EDITORIAL/111190002/1013/editorial&template=printart

PUTIN INSTITUTIONALIZED ? REVIEW & OUTLOOK (WALL STREET JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 19): http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB119542486806397254.html
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TWO SIDES OF MR. SARKOZY - EDITORIAL (NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 18): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/opinion/18sun2.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

WHO IS SARKOZY? - WILLIAM PFAFF (NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, DECEMBER 6): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20859

ARE WE SAFER? A REPORT CARD ON THE WAR ON TERROR - DAVID COLE AND JULES LOBEL (LOS ANGELES TIMES, NOVEMBER 18)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-cole18nov18,0,3469159.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

HENRY KISSINGER: DIPLOMACY IN THE POST-9/11 ERA - DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. (WALL STREET JOURNAL, NOVEMBER 17): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119526852466996657.html?mod=opinion_main_featured_stories_hs
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BEWARE AN EMPIRE THAT SAVES SOULS AT SWORD POINT - JAMES LEVY (NEWSDAY.COM, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-oplev185465286nov18,0,3444637.story

DIPLOMACY WITH THE DEVIL - DANIELLE PLETKA (NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 19): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/opinion/19pletka.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print

CONDI ROUNDUP: LECONDEL! LECONDEL! TO LIFE! (WONKETTE, NOVEMBER 19): http://wonkette.com/politics/condi-roundup/lecondel-lecondel-to-life-324160.php