Writing in the early morning at Atrios's blog, Jay Ackroyd mentions that he'll be speaking with Juan Cole on blog talk radio later today. Cole is a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Michigan, fluently reads, writes, and speaks Arabic and Persian, and is probably the best-educated and best-informed American commentator on MidEast affairs. His Informed Comment blog is indispensable for anyone interested in knowing what's really going on in that part of the world, or for those offended by U.S. government propaganda and the meaningless platitudes offered up on CNN.Ackroyd also mentions that he and Cole will discuss the U.S. objectives in Afghanistan, and that like Atrios he doesn't know what they are. But then, nobody knows that except God, and maybe not even Him, Her, or It.
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