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Random Wednesday Reading

Charlie has, like, a million tabs open in her fancy Google Chrome browser.  Here's a snapshot of what she's reading.

--Fred Kaplan says Gen Jim  Jones, not HRC, is the one to watch on Obama's national security team.  Charlie is inclined to agree.

--Steve Coll, of Ghost Wars fame, has some excellent Mumbai and Lashkar-related posts up on his New Yorker blog.  (Including a link to his incisive article on the brinksmanship that followed the assualt on India's parliament in 2001.)

--Decent NYT pieces on the obstacles to a better Afg strategy and the vulnerabilities of soft targets, like hotels.

--Dan Benjamin says that Lashkar's "secondary" target was the Zadari government in Pakistan.  You don't have to weave a complicated conspriracy theory to see how conflict with India undermines the current gov't and emboldens the Pak Army.  

--Robert Kagan thinks we should send a UN force into FATA and posibbly Pakistan controlled Kashmire.  This strikes Charlie as a wicked bad idea (see above).

--And finally, as a public service annoucement, many of our dear may want to consider adding this to their holiday wish-list.  (Charlie, however, is partial to one of these.)

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