Links 26 February 2011

Blake Hounshell and me on Bloggingheads.

• Dan O'Huiginn: EU Military exports to Libya
  A nice breakdown country-by-country. Belgium, Bulgaria and Malta did quite well.
• Burnt NDP buildings in Cairo to be turned into public gardens - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
  That'd be nice.
• POMED Notes: “Egypt and the Middle East: A Turkish Model of Democracy”
• FT.com / Comment / Analysis - Libya: No line in the sand
  On Western collusion with Qadhafi. Some of this indignation seems a bit much to me, people are ok with doing business with all kinds of authoritarian regimes. I don't hear anyone calling for sanctions on China...
• Hebron protesters clash with Israeli troops - Yahoo! News
  AS OPPOSED TO THE VIOLENT AND ILLEGAL OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT PROGRAM: "There was a violent and illegal riot in Hebron," the Israeli military said, putting the size of the crowd at around 300. An AFP photographer and correspondent said 1,000 people attended the rally.
• Words “Jasmine”, “Tunisia”, “Egypt” are blocked in Chinese microblogs: Voice of Russia
• In one of final addresses to Army, Gates describes vision for military's future
  "In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it," Gates quipped.