I was with Bill Kristol and much of the rest of the world on the legitimacy and crucial need to invade Afghanistan and to crush al Qaeda.

James Fallows crossed swords with Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt earlier this week in a short essay charghing Hiatt and his co-editors with recklessness in their reporting both about China recently and about Iraq before the invasion.

Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish has a neat feature on his blog where he features photos taken by his readers and sent to him. He selects his favorite and titles it “The View From Your Window.

Matt Stoller, one of the most significant emerging leaders of the new political left in this country, has just written a fascinating essay that I think is a real breakthrough in his thinking and hopefully in the strategic thinking of the netroots crowd in general. Stoller’s piece is smart Trotsky.

The pups haven’t said hello to their TWN fans lately and wanted to say howdy, though they are pretty tuckered in this shot.

Critics of the administration have recently turned to take up the cause of Iraqi refugees as an instantiation of US moral failure in the region, to which Steve Clemons and Nir Rosen among others have drawn attention.

I’ve just taken a quick look at the latest release from the Pew Global Attitudes Project which has examined public opinion in 47 countries with more than 45,000 interviews conducted. The Pew report will be posted at noon today.

Yesterday, the New America Foundation hosted and I chaired a meeting with Washington Post Diplomatic Correspondent Glenn Kessler on his new book, The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and Creation of the Bush Legacy. One of the questions asked about the state of Rice’s efforts in “transformational diplomacy.

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times is pouring mud all over the Bain & Co. acquisition of network equipment firm 3Com because it involves Huawei Technologies becoming a minority partner in the deal.

We will be discussing Iran, the bleak binary choice, and whether or not there is a third (or fourth, or fifth) option.