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Daily Beast Correspondent |
![]() You should read Fouad Ajami's editorial in The Wall Street Journal published on the anniversary of 9/11. It was a counterintuitive reminder that it was Arabs in Afghanistan and not Afghanis who plotted and attacked America on 9/11. Ajami unravels the concept of "war of necessity" in Afghanistan as opposed to a "war of choice" in Iraq, and demonstrates how European and other NATO allies are as hesitant and unwilling to help Obama in Afghanistan as they were hesitant and unwilling to help Bush in Iraq. |
Daily Beast Correspondent |
![]() Written under a pseudonym by an American journalist, this new blog about Burma, Dawbobopwint, is a tongue-in-cheek account of life in a police state. Apart from the fact that the Burma story is so compelling, it is also timely as democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi is expected to receive a prison sentence this week. This blog reads like something out of T.E. Lawrence's account of life in Arabia, as chronicled in his epic book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. The writer succeeds in drawing you into day to day Burmese life and in giving you a taste of how it feels like to be living under such an oppressive regime. I was moved. |







