I won’t be able to make the J Street conference until tomorrow, but correspondent Matt “Angel” Duss of the Center for American Progress documents that the opposition to the pro-peace/pro-Israel/pro-Palestine organization encapsulates the future of American Jewry. I have to admit, I hoped that Zayde over there blasted the “APPEASARS” but, alas, it appears that [...]

The WSJ says Obama’s leaning toward a “hybrid strategy” for Afghanistan: The emerging U.S. strategy would change the tactics of conventional forces on the ground to a less-aggressive strategy aimed at winning support among Afghans, while shifting assets needed to go after terror groups — helicopters, unmanned drones, and other surveillance equipment — from Iraq [...]

Joe Quesada of Marvel twitpic’d this as soon as Mo struck out Baby Sarge to clinch our fortieth pennant. It’s time to beat Philly. My first lyrical thought turns to Jadakiss’ “A Milli” freestyle: How he been nice for so long/ why they hating him? But to celebrate: new Clipse! Featuring Cam! Update: And of [...]

I have the Yankees iPhone application — recommended — so I watched a Gameday-style facsimile of Game 5 while at the Gaslight Anthem show on Thursday. It couldn’t sufficiently capture the drama, I figure, particularly not with Swisher getting us down to our last strike with the bases loaded, but I kept throwing my phone [...]

For an excellent and rigorous critique of the McChrystal strategy review, you owe it to yourself to read this lecture, delivered by Paul McGeough of the Sydney Morning Herald. McGeough has been reporting from Afghanistan for decades (so he says; I confess that I’m not familiar with his history) and gives a rather thorough overview [...]

This may be a story that only Matthew Yglesias and I care about. But check out this video that NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen put on his, uh, blog ahead of the Bratislava defense ministerial this week. It amounts to public pressure on Obama to back McChrystal. “It is my ambition that we will [...]

Look at the schedule for the J Street conference and laugh at how pathetically desperate it is for the opponents of peace to portray this gathering as “anti-Israel.” # Iran: Is Diplomacy Working? (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square) Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO, STRATEGA Trita Parsi, Founder and President, National Iranian American Council Brian Finlay, Senior Associate, The [...]

Hamid Karzai doesn’t want to share power with Abdullah Abdullah. Abdullah Abdullah doesn’t want to share power with Hamid Karzai. Fareed Zakaria is going to have Karzai on his program later today to ask him the best question there is: why should anyone believe that the runoff election will be any less fraudulent than the [...]

When you’ve got nothing to post about, post this new 50 Cent movie/music video. They sure spent a lot of money to say not a whole lot. Song’s pretty meh.

In addition to speaking at the J Street conference, Jim Jones, Obama’s national security adviser, will speak to the Arab-American Institute’s summit on Monday, according to Laura Rozen. I have no idea if this is related to the racist Lenny Ben-David’s disgusting attack on my friend Rebecca Abou-Chedid for the crime of having worked for [...]