Category: General

TWN has a busy day ahead. I will be listening in to Senator Joe Biden‘s conference call on his “New Strategy for Pakistan” at 11 am. We’ll also be covering Senator Hagel‘s 11 am speech on Iran.

The lead editorial in today’s Houston Chronicle lauds Senator Hagel‘s letter to President Bush, which this blog first released. The editorial starts: One of the most informed and balanced experts on international relations in the U.S. Senate is Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel.

. . .the latest in pret-a-lac sportswear for dogs.

Flynt Leverett previously served as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs on President George W. Bush’s National Security Council and is now the Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation.

(General George Washington (played by Dean Malissa) and General Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de LaFayette (played by Benjamin Goldman), toast each other at the beginning of their dialogue Tuesday, Nov.

I don’t know what Mohammad Ali-Reza does for a living, but I do know that he lives in Tehran and just published a remarkable letter in the Israeli press — mostly remarkable because it appeared in the Jerusalem Post.

When Fidel Castro dies, something fascinating will happen in America. The History Channel will run extensive coverage of Castro’s life. CNN will air over and over again profiles of Castro and the many American presidents he outwitted and survived.

Omar Khadr, the Canadian detainee who has been in lock down at Guantanamo since he was 15 years old is set to be arraigned this Thursday.

I’ve always supported the kind of civil society and democracy development that comes from “genuinely within” a country — along the lines of what George Soros has done with the Open Society Institute in Eastern Europe.

Not gonna say a word — but I haven’t been able to stop laughing/chuckling since I read it. Thanks to Taylor Marsh for giving my day a pick up.