Photo by brents pix The WWII Memorial just celebrated its fourth anniversary, and a little meme has popped up on several blogs over the last couple of days that paints a picture of almost universal loathing for its design. Arms and Influence kicked it off, condemning the monument for looking too much like a "Nazi memorial," then Matthew Yglesias picked it up, noting that it's difficult to illustrate what he sees as wrong with......

Diplomacy is the cornerstone of foreign policy. The relationship between countries can be fragile, but diplomatic exchanges foster valuable insight into each other's cultures, bring to light areas of mutual cooperation to achieve common interests, and forge stronger economic and political ties. However, when two countries cannot reach an agreement on an area of conflict and the stronger country will sometimes jettison diplomacy and pull out their big stick. Quote of the Week Metro: Tourist......

Today's photo of the WWII Memorial was taken by Flickr user Nayr and, if the tags are any indication, was taken on an Olympus e500. There is no available EXIF data for the shot.......