Week of December 14, 2009

#1 Abbas Milani: The Great Satan Myth (Iran/Mossadegh)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121350.html

#2 Max Blumenthal: Obama, The Fallen Messiah and The Problem With Secular Salvation Narratives
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121441.html

#3 Scott Lemieux: Presidential Reputation
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121310.html

#4 Lawrence of Arabia offers lessons for Afghanistan (Deutsche Welle interview with John Hulsman)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121394.html

#5 Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova: How to Avoid the Soviet Mistakes in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121362.html

#6 Arthur Herman: The 35-Year War on the CIA
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121417.html

#7 Victor Davis Hanson: Are We to Be Led in War by a "Tiger" or a Kitten?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121379.html

#8 John McAdams: Another "Unspeakably Awful" Book About the JFK Assassination
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121328.html

#9 Daniel Martin Varisco: More Than Just (a) War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121302.html

#10 James Castagnera: "Invictus" as history
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121344.html