TWE Mailbag: Suggested CTBT Readings
A mailbox in downtown Paris. (Charles Platiau/courtesy Reuters)
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A mailbox in downtown Paris. (Charles Platiau/courtesy Reuters)
A nine-year-old girl has her blood pressure checked at a hospital in Hong Kong. (Bobby Yip/courtesy Reuters)
Members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group greet their relatives upon their release from Abu Salim prison near Tripoli on August 31, 2010. (Ismail Zitouny/courtesy Reuters)
The "Tribute in Lights" illuminates the sky over lower Manhattan on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters)
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III, and Secretary of the Army John McHugh, prepare to cut the cake at the 236th Army Birthday Ball on June 11, 2011. (Spc. David Sharp/courtesy U.S. Army)
President Barack Obama steps off Marine One at Los Angeles International Airport on April 22, 2011. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters)
President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)
Protesters take part in an anti-Mubarak protest at Tahrir square in Cairo. (Suhaib Salem/courtesy Reuters)
Seven years ago today soldiers in the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division pulled Saddam Hussein from a hole underneath a two-room mud shack on a sheep farm in the town of ad-Dawr, Iraq. Hussein had an AK-47, some chocolate, and $750,000 in cash when he was caught. In the words of Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, “he was caught like a rat.”
In other developments over the weekend.
1. New START may get passed before the lame-duck session of Congress ends. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) have declared their support for New START, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says Senate approval is “very close.” [The Senate first has to pass the legislation extending the Bush tax cuts and then pass the legislation funding the government for the rest of the year. That means that the lame-duck session will have to be extended beyond this Friday, the 17th, to permit time for floor debate and a vote. President Obama says he is willing to delay his vacation to ensure a vote.
On The Water's Edge, Lindsay examines the push and pull of U.S. foreign policy. It focuses on three themes: the political forces shaping American foreign policy, the sustainability of American power in an era of fiscal austerity, and the ability of the United States to navigate a rapidly changing world.
NATO’s twenty-eight member counties wrap up their annual summit today in Chicago. The parting sound bites no doubt will tout…
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the presidential election in Egypt; the NATO summit…
The New York Times ran a fascinating article yesterday on soaring student college debt. To make a long story short—and…
Ask Americans to name World War II battles in the Pacific and you will likely to hear places such as…
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