by Abu Muqawama | Oct 26, 2013 | Monitor
This is the last post on Abu Muqawama. As many of you know, I left the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in August of 2012 to spend a fellowship year in the U.S. Department of Defense doing Middle East policy. My plan had been to stay away for one year, but as...
by Abu Muqawama | Aug 31, 2012 | Monitor
This will be my last post on this blog for at least a year. I am about to start a fellowship program with the Council on Foreign Relations that will place me in the U.S. government for the next 12 months. Because this blog has become such a big part of my idenity, I...
by Abu Muqawama | Aug 30, 2012 | Monitor
A few months ago, it was still fashionable on the American Right to blame President Obama for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq and thus squandering any residual U.S. leverage over events there. I pressed back on this narrative, pointing out that it was the Bush...
by Abu Muqawama | Aug 27, 2012 | Monitor
If I wrote a blog post each time something I read annoyed me, I would obviously blog more frequently. Two things that I have noticed over the past few days, though, deserve especial mention this morning. 1. If you study conflict and conflicts long enough, you will...
by Abu Muqawama | Aug 22, 2012 | Monitor
Not to be confused with the Miles Davis song or dearly departed Philly eatery, green-on-blue violence is confounding U.S. commanders in Afghanistan and — together with the 2,000th U.S. casualty — has thrust the war back into the headlines here in the...
