Jeremy Scahill: Libya could be unstable for a long time

UPDATE: For a great chart of troops in Afghanistan from 2001 to the present, click here. (Hmm, did something happen in January of 2009?)
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Great segment; Scahill gives an excellent summary of where we are with Libya.

The roundtable with Tina Brown and Gov. Howard Dean is interesting as well. Scahill is treated with respect (I was surprised at that, given the venue). Not that everyone agrees, but the discussion was ... normal.

Listen as Scahill gets off the best line of the day: "Not to rain on your drone-loving parade here, but..." (via Glenn Greenwald on Twitter).



About the spelling (for you Arabic-English transliteration freaks): "Kh" is wrong; that's the usual transliteration of the Arabic consonant kha (خـ). It's a breathy sound, like the "ch" in "challah."

"G" or "Q" looks correct to me. The Arabic letter in the name "al-Gaddafi" (Arabic: القَذَّافِي) is qaf (قَ), the bolded third letter in from the right (Arabic reads right-to-left); the first two letters (ال) are the "al". The sound of the consonant qaf is halfway between our /k/ and /g/. You can click the two links above and listen to each consonant as spoken.

And now you know. (Odd that MSNBC got that wrong; they have Arabic-speaking Richard Engel on staff.)

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