Eat the View, which is currently in the lead in our online contest, is featured in today's Washington Post.
If Americans planted wartime victory gardens again, the argument goes,
Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
Just as the USA has bought off the Sunni resistance in Iraq, the solution to the opium economy in Afghanistan, with its links to internal corruption, the Taliban, the 'War on Drugs' , and the 'War on Terror', is to use whatever increased levels of military personnel the new administration introduces into Afghanistan to provide security for model programs of buying up (and ultimately destroying) the poppy production of all the farmers. It sure beats crop eradication for creating good will.
