What’s news this morning?
The White House is now apparently looking at a "middle path" approach in Afghanistan, adding some troops but not as many as General Stanley McChrystal may want, in what many insiders are now calling the "Goldilocks strategy," (not too big, not too small, but just right). Defense Secretary Robert Gates will go to Japan next ...
The White House is now apparently looking at a "middle path" approach in Afghanistan, adding some troops but not as many as General Stanley McChrystal may want, in what many insiders are now calling the "Goldilocks strategy," (not too big, not too small, but just right).
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will go to Japan next week to meet with the new leaders there. On the agenda will surely be the recent announcement by that government that they will end their refueling mission in the Indian ocean.
Formerly "dead" terrorist Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri apparently gave an interview to the Pakistani press, calling into question the reliability of those unmanned drone strikes that Vice President Joseph Biden is always talking up.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is coming back from Russia with no real agreements to tout, except a vague call for missile defense cooperation with Putin’s government. Meanwhile, Putin took the opportunity to throw cold water on the idea of more Iran sanctions.
Britain and France are calling on Israel to investigate the war crimes allegations in the Goldstone Report, which they say they are doing, but which won’t stop the Palestinian leadership from pushing its renewed call for tougher punishments.
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at josh.rogin@foreignpolicy.com.
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A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C. Twitter: @joshrogin
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