I will be the first person to tell you that it is important to keep up with international news as well as keeping informed of events here at home. It is bad enough that certain people can't even find the U.S. on a freaking map:
Which says a lot about how they think about their place in the wider world. Kind of a sad statement on some Americans; they care so little about the larger world that they can't even figure out where they fit in, map or no map.
Now, the natural question to ask here is: Well, if you're so damned smart, why don't you post more stuff on international affairs? And the answer is, a) because there's a lot going on here, in the U.S. that is worthy of discussion, b) I only have so many *minutes* in the day to devote to blogging, and c) because there are people who are much better at discussing foreign affairs than I'll ever hope to be.
Thus, I present to you Juan Cole, president of the Global Americana Institute and professor of Middle East and South Asian studies at the University of Michigan. He blogs extensively about Iraq and Afghanistan particularly, and is the main source of much of my information about Middle East current affairs (it also helps that he is an expert on the Arab language too). If you want to know more about what's going down in the Middle East, and if you care about our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - and if you care about avoiding war with Iran - you should visit his blog regularly (preferably daily).
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