Daily Reading (5/18/09)
Daily Reading
Why we should stop the drone attacks in Pakistan.
Imagine, for example, that burglars move into a neighborhood. If the police were to start blowing up people’s houses from the air, would this convince homeowners to rise up against the burglars? Wouldn’t it be more likely to turn the whole population against the police? And if their neighbors wanted to turn the burglars in, how would they do that, exactly? Yet this is the same basic logic underlying the drone war.
Here's the
big story on Donald Rumsfeld that everyone's been talking about.
A fun profile of the President's
foreign policy speechwriter.
The White House is
blogging about yarn stores. No, really.
Posted by Kat at May 18, 2009 06:14 PM