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sadly i was not able to play the COINdinista (trans: people who like COIN) drinking game cause i would have been lots of fun by the end.
She still has a few missing but Maddow has been doing a good job on the CNAS 'collect them all' game, and frankly, shes been getting smarter in her questioning. Shes particularly good on pressing Exum on the question of resistance to the American footprint. Exum is careful (rightfully so) to differentiate between the tactics that will work in Astan and those in Pstan. I think this is a point thats increasingly worth making: while seeing the situation in Pstan as an intergul part of our efforts in Astan (people far smarter then I have been calling the current war the Afghanistan-Pakistan War for awhile), but its important that while we see it as a united effort, we dont see it as tactically the same.
Also great is right at the end when he talks about metrics for measuring success (this post is a great example of why i read the blog... both the quality of the thought in the comments, and the image of these guys in a car arguing about William of Ockham. yes im a dork). As someone swearing at bad stats (Middle Eastern census data=badbad), I can tell you that coming up with metrics for measuring control and stability are not fun, but also that just GETTING the data can be next to imposible. I dont know what the Obama team is going to come up with, but the fact that the President has asked this question is increadably reasuring to me.
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Back on the subject of Maddow, I'm becoming worried that 75% of the content between the del. roll and her show are the same... or maybe I'm just bragging
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