Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Foreign Policy

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Tomorrow the new issue of Foreign Policy hits the newsstands. Inside the issue I have a small(ish) article on Yemen. The article was solicited months ago as part of a project on things that could “explode” in 2010 – it seems that the editors of FP knew what they were doing when they included Yemen on the list. We’ll see if my comments on al-Qaeda are as prophetic as their vision.

This is all as a way of suggesting that you go out and buy the magazine tomorrow – if you don’t already have a subscription.

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