Robert Kaplan had a great–required– reading–type article in the LA Times last week.

The key graph:

“Iran’s power structure, armed with an admirable Persian gift for subtlety and manipulation, has restricted its own domestic organs of dissent so that it is well positioned to lay siege to media and political elites elsewhere.”

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The LA Times ran an Op-Ed yesterday that addresses a modern aspect of war–how television distorts war.

Frida Ghitis’ article makes the very important point being overlooked in the coverage of the battles in Israel and the greater war on terror, the disproportionate power of moving pictures with sound on the human psyche.

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