Saturday, December 05, 2009

articles of interest Dec. 5

The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer - TIME: by Massimo Calabresi and Michael Weisskopf"

In this interesting article about the Obama's top lawyer's recent resignation, I noticed an interesting guffaw by the authors. One of the reasons for Greg Craig's marginalization was his insistence on releasing pictures and information about our treatment of terrorists. The intelligence community was able to prevail on Obama that the release of this information would be used to further anti-American sentiment as well as tip off the terrorists in our torture methods, thus allowing them to train future terrorists in means of being prepared for those methods. So, in discussing this aspect of Craig's demise, the authors gave examples of how we treated said terrorists. Is it just me or does that seem to be the exact problem that got the subject of the article in trouble?

The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting by Nancy Gibbs
An interesting discussion on the challenges of finding a good equilibrium in parenting. When is it too much or too little?

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