WPR Blog Archive

There’s a lot to digest from Gen. Michael Flynn’s internal report (.pdf) on the U.S. intelligence effort in Afghanistan, not least of which is that it was released by CNAS. Flynn, after all, is the acting commanding general of the . . . U.S. intelligence effort in Afghanistan. When I first saw the report mentioned in a blog post, my mind’s eye inserted a ghost “(ret.)” after his name. Given Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ recent remarks about airing policy debates in public being a career-ending offense, one wonders whether that won’t, rightly or wrongly, soon be the case. As for […]

A Dutch man was the first person to take advantage of a change in U.S. policy removing travel restrictions for individuals with HIV/AIDS, after the ban was lifted Monday. Rights advocates and the United Nations applauded the move, as well as a similar one by South Korea, while calling for 57 other countries with various restrictions in place to follow suit. “We’re very excited to finally see the end of this discriminatory and harmful policy. Getting rid of the HIV ban has been a part of our core mission since we were founded in 1994,” Victoria Neilson, legal director at […]

I feel a bit remiss to have checked out so abruptly, and not to have managed even a holiday greetings or New Year’s post. Truth is, I just managed to get all the pre-holiday loose ends tied up before rushing out the door for a long flight (Paris-L.A., non-stop). And despite my best intentions, once I made it to the City of Angles, I found it harder to cross back over that work-vacation divide than I’d expected. So along with my apologies, please accept my belated best wishes for peace, health and prosperity in 2010. I also feel like I […]