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More Reaction to UNSC Res. 1973 w/ Update
Joshua Keating and David Bosco at Passport report:
“The fissure in the UN between a Western-led interventionist group and a “sovereignty bloc” led by Moscow and Beijing, but with real appeal to key emerging powers like Brazil, South Africa and India… may be one of the most critical dynamics at the UN. For the moment, the West still has the pull to carry the day. Whether that will be true a decade from now is anyone’s guess.”
Which brings up some real questions about the future.
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A sane strategy for Pakistan…
“The only thing we learn from history is that people learn nothing from history”
— Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Inspired by post on Foreign Policy Magazine’s Passport blog.
It began in an unassuming way: the American commanding general in theater sent a memo to Washington informing his superiors that an important enemy target had been tentatively located, but that it was over the border in a neighboring country whose status in all conflicts was neutral and that the territory in question was for all intents and purposes, though inhabited, ungoverned and ungovernable by the central government.
