CJR: Dissent Deficit

CJR: Dissent Deficit: "America’s sclerotic political system (the “sensationalist” press included) is too consumed with trivia and sustaining the status quo to respond effectively to a world in which, as he writes, “on every dimension—industrial, financial, educational, social, cultural—the distribution of power is…moving away from American dominance.”"

Tuesday

Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

Annals of National Security: Preparing the Battlefield: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: "a meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. “The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,” he said."

POLITICS-US: No Traction in the Middle East

POLITICS-US: No Traction in the Middle East: "The hard-line, confrontational policy the United States has embraced under the Bush administration has inadvertently demonstrated the limits of U.S. power"