The political analyst Jeff Greenfield, who very generously gave a cover blurb to The Coup a few years ago, has written an insightful new book called Then Everything Changed, a very entertaining account of a bizarro political journey through three recent decades–sixties, seventies and eighties–in which a very plausible turn of one event sends the …
Is this the end of The Global War on Terror? asks Jim Fallows on theatlantic.com. “For years anti-terrorism experts have stressed the decentralized, self-sustaining nature of al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations around the world. The elimination of the celebrated symbol and inspiration of the movement will certainly not mean the end of terrorist threats, …
Navy Seals killed the terrorist Osama bin Laden in a compund in Abbottablad yesterday. “Justice has been done,” said President Obama, and though long delayed, it has been. Good riddance. Writing in the Times today, Ross Douthat says “This is a triumph for the United States of America, for our soldiers and intelligence operatives, and …