In Hurricane-Battered Red Hook, Disaster is Breeding Resilience
Bureaucracy may be limiting the speed of official relief but a broad-based volunteerism is trying to fill the gap
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Red Hook Apocalypse: How Sandy Undid an Up-and-Coming New York City Neighborhood
The hurricane wreaked havoc among the restaurants and businesses in the historic but long ignored Brooklyn area. Now it has to rebuild
BattlelandIran
Is the White House Weighing a Military Strike on Iran?
Have some members of the Obama Administration been quaffing a 10-year-old jug of Kool-Aid left in a White House basement fridge by Bush Administration officials? That’s certainly an impression conveyed by one unnamed source …
BattlelandAfghanistan
Playing to a Draw, at Best?
Don’t expect to hear about it in the presidential campaign debates, but the U.S. will leave Afghanistan locked in an escalating civil war when it observes the 2014 deadline for withdrawing combat troops set by the Obama …
BattlelandNATO
Who Ends the Libya War, the Rebels or NATO?
Like two evenly-matched bantam-weights tiring as they enter the final round of a matchup low on the global strategic undercard in which the crowd has long-since lost interest, NATO and Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi are staggering towards the final bell. NATO will keeping jabbing away and win the bout on points, no doubt, but it’s …
BattlelandTerrorism
Militants Will Benefit if Pakistan is Blamed for Latest Mumbai Bombing
There’s no reason yet to believe the latest Mumbai terror attacks bear the same signature as the 2008 massacre that left 164 people dead. Wednesday’s multiple explosions appear from early reports to have involved small-scale and relatively crude bombs, even though they appear to have inflicted substantial casualties. That might point …
BattlelandPakistan
Why Obama’s Military Aid Cut is Unlikely to Change Pakistan’s Behavior
The Obama Administration clearly wants the American public to know it is not allowing Pakistan’s double game in Afghanistan and on militant jihadists to go unpunished: The New York Times reports that the U.S. is withholding some $800 million — one third of the aid designated for the Pakistani military — to send a message that …
BattlelandNATO
Lessons Learned in Iraq, Afghanistan Dictate That NATO Accept a Compromise in Libya
This from my Global Spin entry today:
As NATO’s war in Libya entered its 100th day on Monday, an end to the conflict may be in sight — but not necessarily a decisive one. Military and diplomatic signs point increasingly towards some measure of compromise by both sides in shaping an outcome that neither the regime nor the rebels
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