Most Dangerous Week Ever
- By Spencer Ackerman
- February 11, 2011 |
- 8:00 pm |
- Categories: Blog Bidness
No hyperbole needed this week: there was a revolution in Egypt. Those of us unlucky enough not to be in Tahrir Square got to watch, through tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook posts and nonstop Al Jazeera coverage.
But even if you didn’t have time to follow it, you knew all that, because that’s where we were this week. Documenting the failure of Pentagon geopolitics prediction models. Documenting the CIA’s Mideast mis-diagnosis. Watching the U.S. military’s partnership with its Egyptian counterparts. Examining Sudan’s attempts to co-opt online protesting. Showing the military’s tools to restore connectivity in environments denied by dictators like Hosni Mubarak.
Naturally, that wasn’t all we did. Robots? We had them detecting your breath and serving in Afghanistan. We had drone flights for human rights, as per a new Pentagon initiative. We showed how the air war in Afghanistan has doubled. Pirates seized two oil tankers. Kim Jong-il popped champagne like he won the championship game.
But Egypt’s revolution was the week’s seismic event. We’ll be back Monday to see where it goes next. Without hyperbole. Well, without much, at least.