The Torch

The Nunatsiaq News calls it “the most expensive photo op you’ll ever see.”

I have been meaning to write about a striking Washington Post article from the weekend about what the new American deployment in the south of Afghanistan entails, but it’s a weirdly busy day around here so I’ll just point you to Mark From Ottawa at the indispensable Torch blog, because he annotates the Post story usefully. Money quote:

No, worse than that: the critics are lucid. And they want to be impressed with the Harper government’s new military strategy but the facts simply don’t permit it. I refer to the gang at the indispensable military-issues group blog, The Torch. A series of analyses over the past couple days show how unimpressive the Harper strategy is. Start here and read down. Important writing on an important issue.