RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n
Top Billing!<\/span> SWJ Blog<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>– “General Petraeus \/ Ambassador Crocker – Boots on the Ground Assessment<\/a>“<\/p>\n Dave<\/strong> and Bill <\/strong>should be thanked – the post includes access to the full transcript and briefing slides. How many bloggers in the next few days are going to bother reading in full before<\/em><\/strong> launching into their pre-scripted ( and largely cocked up) talking points ?<\/p>\n Co-Top Billing!<\/span> CKR<\/a><\/strong> – “The Presidential Candidates\u2019 Foreign Policy Statements: Early Observations<\/a>” plus “The Presidential Candidates\u2019 Foreign Policy Statements: Rudolph Giuliani<\/a>” and “The Presidential Candidates\u2019 Foreign Policy Statements: John Edwards<\/a>“<\/p>\n Kudos to Cheryl Rofer<\/strong> for the heavy lifting on this important series.<\/p>\n Callimachus<\/strong> <\/a>– “Contemptible<\/a>“<\/p>\n I never liked Brian De Palma<\/strong> anyway. Overrated ripoff artist at his best.<\/p>\n Col. Pat Lang<\/a><\/strong> – “Petraeus and Crocker – Interesting <\/a>“<\/p>\n The colonel gives his ” old hand” take on the report testimony<\/p>\n Nonpartisan<\/a><\/strong> – “9\/11: The Mouse that Roared<\/a> “<\/p>\n NP, the motive force behind ProgressiveHistorians <\/strong>blog, writes from the Left in the first of a 9\/11 series, with a critique of Orson Scott Card<\/strong> (which will interest some readers here) and he draws on the actuarial argument about terrorism risk assessment ( also of interest).<\/p>\n Soob <\/strong>– “The Other Long War<\/a> “<\/p>\n Nice post. I’d say bite the bullet and decriminalize. Addicts will then be a public health issue but the global revenue flows of narcotics trafficking will no longer be a national security issue.<\/p>\n Steve DeAngelis<\/a><\/strong> -“Explaining Development-in-a-Box\u2122<\/a>“<\/p>\n Required reading for understanding the evolution of the Sys-Admin spectrum.<\/p>\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RECOMMENDED READING Top Billing! SWJ Blog – “General Petraeus \/ Ambassador Crocker – Boots on the Ground Assessment“ Dave and Bill should be thanked – the post includes access to the full transcript and briefing slides. How many bloggers in the next few days are going to bother reading in full before launching into their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}