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Two weeks ago, I blogged about the Arab League's observer mission in Syria, and argued that it was likely to struggle. And struggle it certainly has. Last Friday, I wrote a short piece for Foreign Policy summarizing the mission's numerous woes: The Syrian opposition...
After all last year's excitement about social media's role in the Arab revolutions ("Think what Trotsky could have done if only he'd had a twitter feed rather than an armored train, blah, blah"), I'm delighted to see that protestors in Lagos are adopting a lower-tech...
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, which kicked off when America made a grab for what is now Canada. There then followed a range of battles that nobody can remember properly, except that British redcoats torched the White House and Andrew...