{"id":3028,"date":"2009-04-06T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:00:13","slug":"2009-4-6-links-for-april-6th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"Links for April 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for April 6th:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v31\/n07\/warn01_.html\">LRB &middot; Marina Warner: Ventriloquism<\/a> &#8211; Ursula recommends this piece on Edward Fitzgerald&#39;s &quot;The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam&quot;.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2009\/04\/13\/090413ta_talk_mayer\">The Bench: The Bush Six: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; The British barrister who is trying to get Bush administration officials indicted for war crimes.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/04\/13\/090413fa_fact_anderson?currentPage=all\">Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; On Ahmedinejad, Iranian politics, and Obama.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0409\/20927.html\">Obama embraces Muslim world &#8211; Mike Allen &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a> &#8211; Turkey (an important country in many ways for the US) seems to me to be a bit of a lame choice for his &quot;outreach for Muslims&quot; speech. It has, after all, a strongly secular political culture. Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi, Egypt, Morocco would have been better. This link includes the fullt text of the speech.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090406\/pl_nm\/us_obama_turkey_mideast\">Obama reiterates U.S. support for Palestinian state<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Let me be clear: the United States strongly supports the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,&quot; Obama said in a speech to the Turkish parliament.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v31\/n07\/ushe01_.html\">LRB &middot; Graham Usher: Taliban v. Taliban<\/a> &#8211; &quot;&lsquo;Safe havens&rsquo; for a reinvigorated Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida, the tribal areas are seen by the West as the &lsquo;greatest threat&rsquo; to its security, as well as being the main cause of Western frustration with Pakistan. The reason is simple: the Pakistan army&rsquo;s counterinsurgency strategy is not principally directed at the Taliban or even al-Qaida: the main enemy is India.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jQQR6ltAVj7RB2NEq4VGW55HXfuw\">AFP: Islamists arrested on Egypt day of protest<\/a> &#8211; Covers small Ayman Nour deadline of one year for reform, MB MPs walk out on PM Nazif, strike failure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for April 6th:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v31\/n07\/warn01_.html\">LRB &middot; Marina Warner: Ventriloquism<\/a> &#8211; Ursula recommends this piece on Edward Fitzgerald&#39;s &quot;The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam&quot;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2009\/04\/13\/090413ta_talk_mayer\">The Bench: The Bush Six: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; The British barrister who is trying to get Bush administration officials indicted for war crimes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2009\/04\/13\/090413fa_fact_anderson?currentPage=all\">Letter from Tehran: Can Iran Change?: Reporting &amp; Essays: The New Yorker<\/a> &#8211; On Ahmedinejad, Iranian politics, and Obama.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0409\/20927.html\">Obama embraces Muslim world &#8211; Mike Allen &#8211; POLITICO.com<\/a> &#8211; Turkey (an important country in many ways for the US) seems to me to be a bit of a lame choice for his &quot;outreach for Muslims&quot; speech. It has, after all, a strongly secular political culture. Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi, Egypt, Morocco would have been better. This link includes the fullt text of the speech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20090406\/pl_nm\/us_obama_turkey_mideast\">Obama reiterates U.S. support for Palestinian state<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Let me be clear: the United States strongly supports the goal of two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,&quot; Obama said in a speech to the Turkish parliament.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v31\/n07\/ushe01_.html\">LRB &middot; Graham Usher: Taliban v. Taliban<\/a> &#8211; &quot;&lsquo;Safe havens&rsquo; for a reinvigorated Afghan Taliban and al-Qaida, the tribal areas are seen by the West as the &lsquo;greatest threat&rsquo; to its security, as well as being the main cause of Western frustration with Pakistan. The reason is simple: the Pakistan army&rsquo;s counterinsurgency strategy is not principally directed at the Taliban or even al-Qaida: the main enemy is India.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jQQR6ltAVj7RB2NEq4VGW55HXfuw\">AFP: Islamists arrested on Egypt day of protest<\/a> &#8211; Covers small Ayman Nour deadline of one year for reform, MB MPs walk out on PM Nazif, strike failure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}