D3 Weekly Link Roundup
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 06:39AM Baba Tim over at Free Range International properly eviscerates 60 Minutes and Lara Logan for a lame ass piece of reporting on Special Forces (who don’t come out looking too hot themselves) in Afghanistan.
DOD releases the Quadrennial Defense Review. The Atlantic Council has an analysis.
Republicans take on the Military over “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen (who was nice enough to once give me a coin) is an American Hero.
Foreign Affairs has a nice compendium on what to read on foreign aid along with a breakdown of the three main competing approaches to foreign assistance.
State & USAID’s FY11 Budget Request is released, increasing the size of both organizations and expanding the foreign assistance budget. The folks at the Center for Global Development see it as a strong signal for development. Some in Congress fear that with 10% employment and other urgent issues here at home, it will face a “difficult political environment.”
The Economist reviews the Bill Gates’ 2010 Annual Letter on development.
The State Department’s dueling Twitterati.
Henry Kissinger pens an op-ed in the Washington Post advising the Obama Administration to focus his Iraq policy on more than just troop withdrawals.
John Robb on a “Byzantine” grand strategy for American foreign policy. (Hint: Avoid COIN like the plague).
Some Haitians want the U.S. to take over. Also, who’s paying for Haiti?
Mountain Runner who is a must read for all things related to public diplomacy highlights an article by former U.S. Information Agency Associate Director Walter Yates entitled: “The Voice of America: Origin and Recollections.”
And finally, the proposed Pakistani Ambassador to Saudi Arabia is rejected because his name when translated into Arabic means “biggest dick.”