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Valuable intelligence assets are seldom paragons, and the best are valuable precisely because they have traveled down the darker alleys and know where opportunities and danger lie. However unsavory the résumé, says Alexis Debat, senior fellow at the Nixon Center and an expert in counterterrorism in South Asia, "it is always a smarter move to leave someone in place as long as you are getting reliable information." Noorzai's story is both a symbol and an example of this critical debate over means and ends. In addition to speaking to Noorzai exclusively in a two-hour phone interview granted...
William James is the archetypal masked villain of American academia. Seldom seen on curricula, mentioned in hushed tones, his finger is seen on every subject from linguistics to comparative government. His ideological foes curse his philosophical ideas as self-evident and foolish, but few have been around him long enough to even know what they’re denouncing. In his ambitious book on James, biographer Robert Richardson illuminates the life and ideas of this oft-cited father of pragmatism with unprecedented clarity, though many of his attempts to legitimate James’ thought only deepen the subject?...
...answer is yes, but seldom because foreigners are able to impose a nice power-sharing agreement between the warring parties. More commonly, foreign intervention ends a civil war by helping one side defeat the other. That was essentially what happened in the Balkans in the 1990s, when NATO finally intervened against the Serbs. The British ended the civil war in Sierra Leone by beating the rebels. Something similar just happened in Somalia...
...Sadr seldom appears in Sadr City. He normally resides in the southern Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, where U.S. forces battled the Mahdi Army in 2004. U.S. troops stage occasional raids in the sector against Mahdi Army operatives, which the Pentagon now considers a greater threat to security than al-Qaeda. But al-Maliki has consistently stopped American forces from waging an all-out assault on the Mahdi Army or its leadership out of fear of alienating his political base. "The Iraqi leadership has prevented us from targeting some leaders," says a senior military official. "Our understanding is that...
Putnins added that MHAAG’s motivation to launch the new mental health programs stemmed from student need for more open discourse on this seldom-discussed topic...