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The USAF has entered the 21st Century! After prohibiting access to all social networking and personal sites (for security reasons, mind you, not to keep tabs on the good folks who defend the country and could, in theory, while away the drearier hours playing games and looking for a date), a few days ago the upper [...]

Fouad Ajami is one of those rare scholar/commentators about whom one can confidently say “read everything he writes.” He was my professor at SAIS one memorable semester. I had only marginal interest in the subject (the Middle East), but followed the prevailing wisdom that one must take his class just for the theater. He is [...]