One cannot swing a virtual cat this morning without hitting an analysis of Obama’s Afghanistan speech. (I recommend reading Juan Cole, who has posts here, here, and here. Also, Patrick Frost of the Afghanistan Blog shares his thoughts.) In lieu of further commentary, I simply offer you Wednesday Morning Videos:
1) John Norton Moore on piracy and the Law of the Sea:
(h/t to the International Law Observer)
2) The rise and fall of great powers in three and a half minutes:
Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
3) Is the war in Afghanistan moral? I’ll give you one guess about Chomsky’s answer:
