NSN Daily Update 12/19/08 Posted by The National Security Network

NSN's Daily Update is going on holiday hiatus.  See you all January 5th!

See today's complete Daily Update, "A Week that Confirms Bush's Disastrous Legacy on Iraq" here.

What We're Reading

More than 10,000 people in Peshawar, Pakistan, protested allowing the U.S. and NATO to use Pakistani supply routes to Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has requested plans for closing Guantanamo Bay.

Young Somali men in Minnesota are leaving to fight in Somalia.  A local mosque is accused of radicalizing the young men to become jihadists.

The drop in oil prices causes economic woes for Russia and social unrest.

Commentary of the Day

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial criticizing the Democratic response to Senator Carl Levin’s report on the involvement of top Bush administration officials in detainee abuse.

Damon Terrill has an op-ed in the Des Moines Register on President-elect Barack Obama’s opportunity to restore the rule of law on detainee abuse .

Mark Halperin has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on how the Bush administration has made us vulnerable, as “two incompetently prosecuted wars have undermined our deterrent power.”

Rosa Brooks’ latest column in the Los Angeles Times explores the global response to the Iraqi shoe-throwing journalist.

Michael Gerson has an op-ed in the Washington Post on negotiations with North Korea .

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