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• Women’s Rights and Afghanistan

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 792
  Ann Friedman has an excellent piece in TAP on the problematic nature of invoking women’s rights as a rationale for military involvement in Afghanistan. Her trenchant critique is reaches its apex with the following claim, which I suspect will be too bold for some: “To me, the answer is tragically apparent: It ...
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• If You Factor Out 30 Years of Failure, Unilateral Iran Sanctions Work Great

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Laura Rozen has a good post on some Harvard war games about new unilateral sanctions on Iran ultimately proving counterproductive to getting the Iranian regime to accept greater transparency on its nuclear program. You would think the war game would stop after someone said, “We’ve had unilateral economic ...
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• Guantanam’oh No! Financial Hurdles Hit Obama’s Latest Plan

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 713
  A little less than a year ago, when President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, it seemed to many like a realistic goal. But the wind-down has been anything but smooth. The latest hurdle: the administration is short on cash.
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• Woman, 35, Arrested For Threatening To Kill Michelle Obama [National Security]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 804
  Kristy Lee Roshia was arrested in Hawaii for making calls to the Secret Service threatening to "blow away" Michelle Obama. She told officials that she traveled to Hawaii in September, knowing that Obama would visit, "to protect [him]." [ AP ]
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• Congress Recoils At "Gitmo North."

  
  TAPPED — Authority: 151
  Charlie Savage reports that Congress -- whose irrational fears regarding the imprisonment of suspected terrorists on American soil and rampant NIMBYism have been a massive impediment to closing Guantanamo Bay -- is refusing to appropriate funding to help prepare the maximum security prison in Thomson, Illinois, ...
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• Closing Guantanamo Costs Money; But There Is an Alternative

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  When the Obama administration announced its plan earlier this month to transfer military commissions-bound Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, two senior officials held a conference call to tell reporters how the plan would work. Before Guantanamo could be closed, they said, the ...
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• Sky-High Youth Unemployment in the Arab World

  
  Matthew Yglesias — Authority: 792
  One reason I tend to be been skeptical of the view that the problems associated with violent Islamism require some kind of grand ideological battle is that Arab countries, in particular, seem to feature a lot of really banal things that might cause a lot of violence. For example, in the Middle East sixty percent of ...
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• Were Closing Gitmo to Save the Taxpayer Money!

  
  And So it Goes in Shreveport — Authority: 598
  Team Obama has maxed out mommys credit card and doesnt have the cash to purchase Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois. When approached with the idea of adding $200 million to the military appropriations bill to fund the endeavor, Congress balked. The New York Times reports: Still, it is not clear that ...
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• Deck the halls with Chairman Mao

  
  Pundit & Pundette — Authority: 616
  Poor Stalin and Hitler must be feeling left out. No reports (yet) that their images are hanging on any White House Christmas trees. But there are a lot of trees in "the peoples house," and who knows what might turn up next?Another quick item before undone Christmas preparations take over my mind:Andy McCarthy: We ...
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• Top Five National Security Players of 2009

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 736
  The 2008 presidential election promised to bring great changes to the country’s national security policy. Here are the five players who did the most to craft America’s approach to keeping its citizens safe in 2009. Click here to begin slideshow.
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• Ready or Not? 2009 – Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 153
  Ready or Not? 2009 – Protecting the Public’s Health from Disease, Disasters, and Bioterrorism Source: Trust for America’s Health rust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the seventh annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, ...
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• Iran emerges victorious in simulated war games at Tel Aviv University

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Tel Aviv, Dec. 23 (ANI): Due to Obama administration’s diplomatic approach to Tehran, Israel, which has been demanding aggressive action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, has been left in lurch leaving the Islamic republic emerge victorious in ’secret war games’ - a simulated conflict staged by the Tel Aviv ...
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• Dame luck ensured terror-free 2009 so far: Chidambaram

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 23 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram attributed a terror-free 2009 in India so far to “dame luck” and better coordination among intelligence agencies to sharing of information.“Honestly, it is because of dame luck that there has been no terror attack. I have to be lucky every time an attack ...
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• An Obama Christmas Eve - Darkness For Free World

  
  Sillie Lizzie's Rock — Authority: 112
  There are several themes in Canada Free Press 12/23/09 article "Obama Chooses Christmas Eve as Night of Darkness For Free World ". Im not going to get into all of them. I want to focus on some pertinent questions asked by Judi MCLeod: "How long have we known in our hearts that Obama is not an American?" ...
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• Basic Laptop Security Prevents Identity Theft

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com In 2003, an estimated 1.5 million laptops were stolen worldwide. Today, that number has climbed to 2.6 million. That’s a 70% increase in just a few years. That’s one stolen laptop every 12 seconds. Laptop computers have ...
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• Simplified Analysis: Forging A Biometric ID

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 472
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP But most of those issues are related to encryption, materials and generally anything that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Here is an example of the possibility to create a fake Biometric ID with very little technical knowledge. In order to understand this ...
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• Sanctions Should Not End Engagement With Iran

  
  Wonk Room — Authority: 761
  There is a common perception that by moving to put in place sanctions against Iran , the Obama administration is, as a result, ending its policy of engagement. In other words, we tried diplomacy now we are ready to “ move on ” to sanctions. This is a misperception and assumes that sanctions and engagement are ...
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• The End of the 00s: The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by Spencer Ackerman

  
  The Awl — Authority: 773
  I always found it strange when polemicists denounced George W. Bush for saying, after 9/11, that Americans should go shopping. Andrew Bacevich, who’s emerged as possibly the premiere root-and-branch critic of American militarism, wrote an impassioned op-ed explaining the reasoning behind that critique. “From the ...
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• Tom Ricks vs. the Defense Bill

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 736
  President Obama signed the 2010 defense appropriations bill into law this morning, following a brief bit of legislative theater by Republicans who wanted to hold it hostage to delay health reform. Tom Ricks goes through the bill and finds it only marginally relevant to national security : $4.4 billion for two ...
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• The Human Face of War

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 635
  The Human Face of War by Dr. Jim Storr An important new book on military theory and history by British defense expert Dr. Jim Storr , a retired Lt. Colonel, King’s Regiment and an instructor at the UK Defence Academy , was reviewed in Joint Forces Quarterly ( hat tip Wilf Owen ) by Col. Clinton J. ...
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