Apologies for the light posting of late, it has been a hectic work month. I have an op-ed in today’s Toronto Star (written with friend and colleague David Eaves), the slightly longer and unedited version of which is below:

Getting Back on Track in Afghanistan
Success in Afghanistan remains as vital today as when the government [...]

Bolton: This is in many respects simply a repetition of the agreed framework of 1994. You know, Secretary Powell in 2001 started off the administration by saying he was prepared to pick up where the Clinton administration left off. President Bush changed course and followed a different approach. This is the same thing that the [...]

Other highlights: On the OSP report on Iraq-al Qaeda links, “It looked like an unsorted pile of junk”. “It wasn’t that they did not do the work, it was that the policy makers didn’t like the answer. The very well documented answer than there wasn’t a link…”

h/t: AS
No matter what one’s past positions [...]

A few random snippets on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Oxford:
Whatever the legal issues, Cheney is not coming out of the Libby trial in a very good light. However, it no longer matters politically.
With Blair’s increasing troubles with the cash-for-honours scandal the parallels between Chretien/Martin and Blair/Brown become increasingly eerie.
Krauthammer’s latest is a low [...]