Kaplan: Fort Hood Shows We Need More Muslim Soldiers

Robert Kaplan on the real lessons of Fort Hood:

The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 soldiers were shot and killed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, paradoxically took my memory back to April 2004, when I was embedded with a Marine battalion during the first

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If Only the American People Were Worthy of Their Wars

Andrew Sullivan flags this Robert Kaplan piece from last week that about Afghanistan. Most of it is a recitation of can-do optimism about the war — containing a few debatable propositions — and a summary of where things stand, presumably to catch the public up on a war More…