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« Talking of Afghanistan \| JWN front page \| 'Locals' as the new 'natives' » Barnett Rubin on Afghanistan Posted by Helena Cobban July 20, 2008 1:28 PM EST \| Link Filed in Barnett Rubin's been doing some good blogging on Afghanistan at ICGA. But I found this post-- which he co-wrote with, I think, some help from Tao master Zhuang Zi-- particularly enlightening. « Talking of Afghanistan \| JWN front page \| 'Locals' as the new 'natives' » Comments	Recent Posts on JWN • The Color of Iran's Elections (15) • George Mitchell is doing what?? (24) • Does Obama understand Israel's war goal in Iran? (81) • Newsweek: "Everything you know about Iran is Wrong" (16) • Closing Gitmo: The Abe Lincoln solution (18) • Iran Politics: It's the foreign policy, stupid. (12) • IPS piece on Turkey's role in region, world (35) • Transit systems, Turkey (2) • More on 'natural growth' in settlements (1) • Thinking on Iran decision-making (9) • Why Israel's 'natural growth' claim is dishonest: Four reasons (3) • Abbas losing support from Fateh (10) • Open Thread, Istanbul, London (16) • My IPS piece on Netanyahu's big meeting with Obama (23) • Uzi Arad in Washington (9) • Uzi Arad and other aspects of Netanyahu's Washington visit (33) • After Hamas's Hudna, what? (9) • Dayton on his Palestinian army's prospects (9) • An informed view of Hamas policy (14) • J. Cook on the Pope in Nazareth (10) • Meshaal on the Palestinian state alongside Israel; Nunu on the tahdi'eh (0) • Meshaal: the longer NYT text, and a question about Haaretz (4) • Palestine/Bantustans (3) • On Qatar and Sheikha Mozah (11) • Palestine: The archipelago 'map', spaciocide, etc. (14) • My piece in The Nation on Hamas (2) • Obama and Israel's nukes (8) • Advancing Security and Opportunity -- US Style (5) • White House (still) guiding Middle East policy (13) • Mondoweiss tweets AIPAC (10) • US MSM and Latin America (5) • NYT interviews Meshaal (5) • Discussing Hamas with Allister Sparks (41) • New reports on press and other freedoms (7) • Some notes from UNESCO klatch, Doha (9) • Another Scary Terror Report (11) • The Year of the Ox II (7) • IPS piece on Lebanon (9) • Hariri court orders generals' release; case in disarray (6) • Obama opens timid discussion with Congress on Hamas (6) • Netanyahu and the 'Palestinian state' card (12) • China Hand on the bleak prospects for the US in Afghanistan (4) • 'Sensitive' developments in Saudi Arabia? Succession-related? (5) • Videos from the recent Georgetown University CCAS conference (0) • More dishonest argumentation from the WaPo's Hoagland (12) • Ahmadinejad: "Whatever decision they (Palestininians) take is fine with us" (13) • Destruction of mosques in Israel after 1948 (12) • IPS piece on coming Obama-Netanyahu spat (27) • On bank governance: A modest proposal (11) • Sort of catching up here (5)

Barnett Rubin on Afghanistan

Posted by Helena Cobban
July 20, 2008 1:28 PM EST | Link
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Barnett Rubin's been doing some good blogging on Afghanistan at ICGA. But I found this post-- which he co-wrote with, I think, some help from Tao master Zhuang Zi-- particularly enlightening.

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